"Yakuza Apocalypse" - Miike's back

[Drunk Monk]

Why did it take so long for one of us to get to this? It’s so DOOMiike it hurts. It’s about a yakuza boss who is a vampire and takes a deep dive into the Yōkai world, so deep that if you don’t know Yōkai, you will get lost (but you’ll probably get lost anyway, especially at the end). Sanguineous maximus. And much to my delight Yayan Ruhian is hitman (not his best work choroegraphically but amusing for sure). It’s an insane ride that ultimately goes nowhere and everywhere, absurd and preposterous in that singular way of Miike, taking ideas down a perverse dark path and finding quirky humor there - or perhaps it’s just funny because we’re uncomfortable. Warning SPOILER do not expect resolution or closure END SPOILER. So much is left unexplained (and there’s room for a sequel). The frog in the photo above? The frog is awesome!

The movie opens with a sanguineous sword fight. DOOM recommended in that old school psychotropic DOOM way, like those mindbending vids we used to watch the leapt deep into the bizarre, enough so to surprise and make us ponder what the filmmakers were thinking.