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‘Yakuza Apocalypse’ Movie Review – recaptures the spirit of Miike’s earlier work that made him famous

Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld (Gokudo Dai Senso) Directed by Takashi Miike Screenplay by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi 2015, Japan Prolific Japanese genre auteur Takashi Miike returns to his gonzo roots with Yakuza Apocalypse, a genre mashup about a yakuza boss named Kamiura (Lily Franky) who’s assassinated by a coffin-toting English-speaking, Japanese, Django-wannabe gunslinger …

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