Teenage Yakuza

Low-key oddness: Teenage Yakuza unfolds in the attack-counterattack rhythm of your typical Kinji Fukasaku film, except that everyone's a teenager and nobody ever dies. Jiro, an ordinary high school student with his sights set on attending university, also happens to be really good at fighting. He's so good, in fact, that he ends up conscripted by many of his rural community's businesses into serving as a bodyguard against local ruffians. After an arrest dashes his academic ambitions, he finds himself torn between officially becoming yakuza or ignoring the plight of his neighbours. Meanwhile, an old friend joins the gang, his reputation ruins his family's coffee business, and a teenager searches for her idol. Along the way, there's plenty of Seijun Suzuki flourishes: A sudden death fades into an odd obituary, multiple characters suffer from (metaphorical?) limps, and there's a half-second cut to a woman cackling while playing pachinko that's going to stick with me for days.

Teenage Yakuza

A by-the-book youth oriented yakuza pic. A high school student who gets involved in a scuffle at a neighborhood shopping mall. When the smoke clears, the police discover he has actually apprehended a notorious mobster. The community takes a collection and hires the boy as a security guard.

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At age fifteen, after abandoning his failing academic career and mundane life at home, Ijichi beings working with his uncle at a coal depot. After one year passes, young Eiji begins to gravitate towards the dazzling light of organized crime and gambling. His boyish youth hardening, he welcomes the newfound life of the yakuza, a member of a traditional organized crime syndicate in Japan.

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As a high school misfit on a class trip, your mission is clear:claim your territory, beat the crud out of anyone who saysotherwise, and make a name for yourself as the most dangerous, mostintimidating, most lethal teenage miscreant loose on the streets ofan unfortunate Japanese city. Fights are mostly what you'd expectfrom such a premise, meaning they are filled with extreme, wantonviolence and deft fist-foot-forehead management. Oh, and lasersshooting from your eyes. 041b061a72