Tough cop Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) finds his investigations into a Yakuza group complicated by corrupt superiors and his own attraction toward gangster’s wife Keiko (Meiko Kaji). But after he befriends Iwata (Tatsuo Umemiya) – the man lined up to take control of Keiko’s gang – Iwata is murdered while Kuroiwa finds himself suspended, the result of the Chief of Police … Read the rest
Month: January 2019
One Cut of the Dead (Yuya Nakaizumi, Shinichiro Ueda, Japan, 2017)
A film crew shooting a low-budget zombie pic in an abandoned WW2 facility suddenly come under attack from real zombies.
Cleverly conceived movie-within-a-movie which kicks off with the zombie movie proper before flashing back to show how the crew and project came together and then reruns the whole movie again. This time showing us all the behind-the-scenes shenanigans as the … Read the rest
