Before being widely known through his two “Baby Assassins” movies, Yugo Sakamoto has also shot a grittier, somewhat darker movie, “The Janitor”, who still implements, though, the chaotic narrative approach his later movies included.
on Hi-Yah!
The titular character is actually Akira Fukami, a man whose father was murdered and was taken in by his sworn blood brother, Majima, a yakuza leader who trained Fukami into becoming his most formidable assassin. As the movie begins, and as a side job, the young man poses as a janitor in a high school where Majima’s daughter, Yui is attending, secretly functioning as her bodyguard. Despite some issues here and there, his life proceeds smoothly, until Majima announces that he wants to take his business to Hong Kong. This enrages one of the underbosses, Nishimori, who immediately starts plotting to have him killed, using Fukami, to whom he reveals...
on Hi-Yah!
The titular character is actually Akira Fukami, a man whose father was murdered and was taken in by his sworn blood brother, Majima, a yakuza leader who trained Fukami into becoming his most formidable assassin. As the movie begins, and as a side job, the young man poses as a janitor in a high school where Majima’s daughter, Yui is attending, secretly functioning as her bodyguard. Despite some issues here and there, his life proceeds smoothly, until Majima announces that he wants to take his business to Hong Kong. This enrages one of the underbosses, Nishimori, who immediately starts plotting to have him killed, using Fukami, to whom he reveals...
- 10/20/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Last part of the trilogy adapting one of the best anime and manga of all time, “The Final Alchemy” concludes the story as closely to the original as possible, with a 142 minute epic that is probably the best in the trilogy.
While Edward and Ling Yao are fighting Envy inside Gluttony, Hohenheim, father to the Erlic brothers, also becomes a factor in the story, while Roy Mustang realizes that the conspiracy he thought included some of the higher echelons of the army is much bigger than he anticipated. The narrative then focuses on the various arcs of the last episodes of the anime, with Scar still being part of the equation, Ling Yao becoming a whole different entity, Lust, Greed, Sloth, Wrath revealing even more of their secrets, and the gang finding powerful allies in the face of Alex Armstrong’s sister, Mira, and Izumi, the woman who actually taught alchemy to the two brothers.
While Edward and Ling Yao are fighting Envy inside Gluttony, Hohenheim, father to the Erlic brothers, also becomes a factor in the story, while Roy Mustang realizes that the conspiracy he thought included some of the higher echelons of the army is much bigger than he anticipated. The narrative then focuses on the various arcs of the last episodes of the anime, with Scar still being part of the equation, Ling Yao becoming a whole different entity, Lust, Greed, Sloth, Wrath revealing even more of their secrets, and the gang finding powerful allies in the face of Alex Armstrong’s sister, Mira, and Izumi, the woman who actually taught alchemy to the two brothers.
- 10/1/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The second part of the trilogy adapting the famous manga and anime (one of the best of all time actually) has recently been released on Netflix, continuing the story from the middle part of the original, focusing on Scar’s arc, one of the most interesting characters in the whole franchise.
As it is soon revealed, Scar is on a mission to kill every State Alchemist, in a desperate effort to exact revenge from the genocide the army committed years ago in Ishval, with his quest eventually revealing another side of the army and particularly of the Fuhrer, which was not evident at all before. At the same time, Edward and Alphonse stumble upon a prince named Lin Yao and his two bodyguards, who are in search of the Philosopher’s Stone, as much as Lan Fan, a kind-hearted girl who is from the same country as the three foreigners.
As it is soon revealed, Scar is on a mission to kill every State Alchemist, in a desperate effort to exact revenge from the genocide the army committed years ago in Ishval, with his quest eventually revealing another side of the army and particularly of the Fuhrer, which was not evident at all before. At the same time, Edward and Alphonse stumble upon a prince named Lin Yao and his two bodyguards, who are in search of the Philosopher’s Stone, as much as Lan Fan, a kind-hearted girl who is from the same country as the three foreigners.
- 8/24/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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