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Hell Dogs

Original title: Heru doggusu
  • 2022
  • TV-MA
  • 2h 18m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
1.6K
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Jun'ichi Okada and Kentarô Sakaguchi in Hell Dogs (2022)
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A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.

  • Director
    • Masato Harada
  • Writers
    • Akio Fukamachi
    • Masato Harada
  • Stars
    • Jun'ichi Okada
    • Kentarô Sakaguchi
    • Mayu Matsuoka
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    1.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Masato Harada
    • Writers
      • Akio Fukamachi
      • Masato Harada
    • Stars
      • Jun'ichi Okada
      • Kentarô Sakaguchi
      • Mayu Matsuoka
    • 10User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
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    Jun'ichi Okada
    Jun'ichi Okada
    • Shogo Kanetaka
    Kentarô Sakaguchi
    Kentarô Sakaguchi
    • Hideki Murooka
    Mayu Matsuoka
    Mayu Matsuoka
    • Emiri Kisa
    Miyavi
    Miyavi
    • Yoshitaka Toake
    • (as MIYAVI)
    Kazuki Kitamura
    Kazuki Kitamura
    • Tsutomu Toki
    Shinobu Ôtake
    • Noriko Kinugasa
    Satoshi Kanada
    • Kuniya Mikami
    Mai Kiryû
    • Anna Zeze
    Kyoko
    • Urasettai no Mama: Kyoko
    Arisa Nakajima
    • Ruka
    Mariko Akama
    • Sayoko Kumazawa
    Jun Murakami
    Jun Murakami
    • Banken
    Ukon Onoe
    • Salon Customer
    Yoshi Sakô
    • Masaru Anai
    Mitsuo Yoshihara
    • Nobuo Kumazawa
    Yasumasa Ôba
    • Chuji Omaeda
    • Director
      • Masato Harada
    • Writers
      • Akio Fukamachi
      • Masato Harada
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      Both at the beginning and towards the end of the film, Shogo Kanetaka mentions a shrine to the goddess Diana where the priest is a killer. These are references to the shrine of the Golden Bough by Lake Nemi (just south of Rome). Supposedly there was a tree there one of whose boughs was golden. In Roman times, the shrine had a priest who assumed the position by killing the previous priest. The rationale for becoming the priest was that if the killer was a slave, he automatically was freed. This shrine was the initial inspiration for Sir James Frazer's massive book on mythology, "The Golden Bough". Note that "Golden Bough" appears as the name on one of the disused buildings in the film.

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    6/10
    Not your typical action film
    The idea of going undercover to get a job done is not new, in American cinema it probably goes back at least to Undercover Agent (1939). Police procedurals being popular, almost every other country on the planet has played with this genre also, and it is especially popular in Asia. Masato Harada is a senior director with decades of experience in Japan and this appears to have been his pet project. References in the film show that Harada was very familiar with the American "film noir" (as above), and in many ways Hell Dogs is almost an homage. That said, while direction and acting is sharp, and the action scenes razor-sharp, my concerns are the same ones mentioned in the overseas reviews. Running over 2 hours is just too long; long scenes of exposition with heavy dialog; long distances between action scenes; and so many characters to keep track of that the viewer gets the sense a pop quiz may be coming. Tighter editing would have helped. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
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    • Release date
      • September 16, 2022 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official site
      • Official Site (Japan)
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Hell Dogs - In the House of Bamboo
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $3,744,712
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 18 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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