Tattooed Life
1965 : 1 hour 26 minutes
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Director: Seijun Suzuki
synopsis
Tetsuo (Hideki Takahashi, Fighting Elegy), a low-level yakuza is double-crossed by his boss and attacked. After his younger brother Kenji comes to his aid and kills Tetsuo's assailant, they flee to Manchuria where they risk coming under suspicion of rival gangs. Seijun Suzuki remains loyal to the conventions of the yakuza film, but Tattooed Life contains flashes of his later creative genius, including a final act of explosive visual excess that has become one of the director’s all-time classic scenes.
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