“things i wasn’t expecting from this yakuza film”:

1) it being a musical
2)

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( technically not a musical but basically a musical )

Someone literally gets mauled by mattresses falling from the sky.

I love this movie.

This is the kind of magnificent, chaotic, colorful pulp opera that only Seijun Suzuki could conjure up.

For Fans Of…

~ Probably not really knowing what’s going on for most of a movie's runtime.
~ Self-aware neo-noir.
~ Movies with horror movie titles that are not actually horror movies.
~ Chipmunks.
~ That one character in Bong Joon-Ho’s Memories of Murder who is constantly dropkicking people out of nowhere.

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( Suzuki Ranked )

maybe the real malkovich was the malkovich we malkovich-ed along the malkovich

**UPDATE**

As I was going through other people’s reviews, I stumbled upon another almost identical review by paidi1010 from this very day. Which has to be the most Kaufman thing ever. 😂 Just thought everyone should know…

saulnier (watching any coen bro’s movie):

yeah yeah like that but more emotionally raw and also more brutal...

this heist movie was more strange, wandering, multi-layered, and—at a certain point—horrifying than any heist movie has any right to be.

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( melville ranked )