Falling Out (1967) User Reviews

Nice insights into 1960s post war Japan 🇯🇵🎌

[imranahmedsg · 7/10 · 27 December 2023]

Nice, period piece set in late 1960s Japan. A story which provides insights into the era and a Japan still in the throes of reconstruction after World War Two.

A Yakuza group is disbanded and many of the group's members take to 'dishonorable' crime activities.

Enter the hero and main character after an eight year stint in jail. He tries to set things right but he's clearly swimming against the tide in new, capitalist Japan.

There are several subplots, including one involving the hero's love interest. An additional subplot revolves around the hero's family members and former Yakuza members who participate in the new Japan economy in various ways - including as CEOs of construction companies.

A good movie symbolically depicting the death of traditional Japan and the rise of a new, post war Japan.

On the waterfront in the Japanese way

[searchanddestroy-1 · 4 January 2015]

A very rare Kinji Fukasaku film, that I watched in Japanese language and without subtitles. Nothing at all. I guess I got most of the story, if not everything. I took it because it as starring the late Koji Tsuruta, who was a recurrent actor working with Fukasaku, with the likes of Noburu Andô, Bunta Sugawara, Tetsua Watari...But here I only recognized Tsuruta Koji. Most of yakuza movies look the same. Most of them. An ex con is released from jail and finds his former associates and friends. But not only, also his ex girl friend and enemies. Tsuruta makes no exception here, getting involved with an union racket on the docks...Much brutality here, for this very pessimistic tale, as usual with Japanese features. I won't say I recognized the Fukasaku touch here, I repeat, Japanese directors were all at the same school, especially the movies made from Toei productions.

I am the only one to have commented it. From a DVD from Japan, and not a duplicate or "bootlegged" stuff. Genuine material.