Sentences with phrase «yakuza who»

Players step into the role Kazuma Kiryu, a Yakuza who seeks answers and aims to protect his friends after a war starts throughout the streets of Kamurocho.

The full - throttle, splash - and - dash illustrations perfectly suit the wild, action - fueled story: A pair of fiendish little street urchins sharp - as - nails Black and sweet - but - brutal White defend their hold over the city's violent underworld against a gang of yakuza who want to take control.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

Not exact matches

The ones who have been to fashion weeks know there will always be that group of Asians all dressed in crazy outfits looking like they're part of Yakuza, the fashionistas using as much color as possible to look like something out of a LSD - trip or the ever so «different from everyone else» - fashion people who always dress in black.

Among the well - armed and highly skilled but no less peeved and panicked prey are a mercenary (Adrien Brody), an Israeli soldier (Alice Braga), a death - row killer (Walton Goggins), a Yakuza kingpin (Louis Ozawa Changchien)... and a geeky doctor (Topher Grace), who seems curiously out of place until it becomes obvious why he's been grouped with everyone else.

Royce soon discovers that several other killers have just undergone the same disorienting trip, including a U.S. soldier (Alice Braga), a Cartel enforcer (Danny Trejo), a member of the yakuza (Louis Ozawa Changchien), a convicted sociopath (Walton Goggins), and a nebbish and seemingly out - of - place academic who yelps like Kermit the frog (Topher Grace, of course).

Giddily recycling everything from «2001: A Space Odyssey» and «The Matrix» to yakuza actioners and National Geographic documentaries, it's a garish, trippy, wildly uneven and finally quite disarming piece of work, graced by a moment - to - moment unpredictability that will pique audience curiosity but may put off those who prefer their summer movies on the more conventional side.

In the first, black - and - white entry, Ken - san plays Tachibana, a yakuza underling who's sent to the snowy wastes of northern Hokkaido to do his time at the infamous Abashiri penitentiary, from which escape is supposed to be impossible due to its isolation in harsh surroundings.

An American street racer in Japan learns an exciting but dangerous new style and goes head - to - head with a local champion who has ties to the Yakuza.

It might be the sixth game in the series, but this is a great entry point for anyone who's never experienced the bizarre hyper violence of a Yakuza game.

He creates a complete cosmology for his Yakuza vampires and the power vacuum created when the beloved boss is murdered by a Django - coffin - clad vampire hunter, then in act three he introduces a chief baddie who spends the first part of the last battle in a giant, felt frog - mascot costume.

(and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

by Walter Chaw 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's costume - period retro - cross-cultural updating of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

If you got mad at Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes when Solid Snake backflips, then kicks a moving missile, causing it to change course and blow up in the face of the enemy who fired it... then Yakuza 5 might turn you off similarly.

Meanwhile, young Mitsuko (who stars in the toothpaste ad that opens the film, the jingle for which echoes incessantly through the rest of the runtime) comes home to find that her mother has massacred a group of gangsters sent to kill her Yakuza boss father Muto (the familiar Jun Kunimura).

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

Lana was cast as Saya, a mysterious and guarded girl with a deadly reputation, who was banished from one of the top Yakuza clans in Japan and sent to the School for the Deadly Arts to redeem herself.

Based on Hideo Yamamoto's manga series of the same name, the controversial and graphic tale of feuding yakuza gangs is seen primarily through the actions of a scarred and psychologically damaged man, who is manipulated into killing rival faction members.

Remarking therein that anyone who'd seen a few examples of this relentlessly formalized genre could write one himself, Schrader spoke from experience: his own The Yakuza, touched up a smidge by Robert Towne and formally permissive enough to incorporate some double - dealing American gangsters along with its Japanese pro- and antagonists, looked a likely enough successor to the kung - fu cycle in popularity that Warner Brothers paid a hefty price for the screenplay ($ 300,000, according to Newsweek).

First things first: The way they say it in the movie is yaw - ku - zah and, as a headnote explains, the Yakuza were roughly parallel to the western's good badmen — gamblers, con men, drifters with short swords and no samurai code of bushido to sustain them, sometime Robin Hood figures who stood between the defenseless and the marauders who would prey upon them.

An international trailer has arrived online for cult filmmaker Takashi Miike's new gangster - vampire mash - up Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, which you can watch below... Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yYakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, which you can watch below... Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yakuzayakuza.

Ahead of its U.K. premiere at the BFI London Film Festival next month, a new red band trailer for Takashi Miike's action horror Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld has arrived online and you can watch it below after the official synopsis... Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful -LSB-...]

The cherubic hero in the neat powder blue suit, who looks like he was torn out of a yakuza pop - up book?

Described as the fascinating story of an American former prisoner - of - war who rises in the yakuza in post-World War II Japan.

Naschy writes, directs and stars in the film as Bruno Rivera, a professional hit man who has fallen in love with Mieko (Eiko Nagashima), a member of the Yakuza.

You can see the demo in action courtesy of YouTuber Noah Ezrin above, who does a fantastic job explaining the game's back story and similarities between it and the Yakuza series.

Yakuza's cast is so often made up of sharp - dressed men from big cities that it's a pleasant change of pace to head to the countryside in this game and hang out with simpler folk who are lower — a lot lower — down the criminal family tree.

The story concerns passive gas station attendant and baseball team benchwarmer Masaki (Masahiko Ono) whose one moment of action is a badly timed attack on a rude customer who just happens to be Yakuza.

Yakuza Kiwami follows Kazuma Kiryu a member of the Tojo clan who takes the fall for a murder he didn't commit in order to protect his best friend.

10:00 pm No edition of the IFFR is complete without a second - tier Takashi Miike film, and this year it was The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, a not - all - that - funny, very broad comedy about an inept beat cop who is recruited to infiltrate a yakuza gang.

Gamers who would prefer to be off the pitch and in the face of zombies can pick up the PS3 - exclusive Yakuza: Dead Souls this Tuesday.

Largely including music written by Andrew «zircon» Aversa (the game's programmer and designer), the Tangledeep soundtrack will also feature guest contributions by legendary composers such as Hiroki Kikuta of Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3 fame, Grant Kirkhope, composer for games like GoldenEye 007 and Banjo - Kazooie, and Norihiko Hibino, who has worked on such series as Metal Gear Solid, Yakuza, and Bayonetta.

But it's the past six months that's really seen a flurry of activity: The writer's latest «The Outsider,» about a former WW2 prisoner - of - war who rises through the ranks of the Japanese Yakuza, placed fourth in the 2011 Black List, and is set up at Warner Bros with producer John Linson («Sons of Anarchy «-RRB-, who conceived the idea, and his father Art («Fight Club «-RRB- on board.

Noodle man, «Dead or Alive» (1999) In an insane hyper - stylized orgy of sex, drugs and violence, a team of Yakuza hitmen take out their target, who had just downed about 10 bowls of noodle soup.

Yakuza 6 represents the final hurrah for Kiryu, an aged yakuza veteran who's been reluctantly forced back into the criminal underworld time and again for nearly 12 yearYakuza 6 represents the final hurrah for Kiryu, an aged yakuza veteran who's been reluctantly forced back into the criminal underworld time and again for nearly 12 yearyakuza veteran who's been reluctantly forced back into the criminal underworld time and again for nearly 12 years now.

Choi Ik - hyun (played by Choi Min - sik of Oldboy), a petty customs officer on the docks who pads his income with bribes, discovers that he is related to a yakuza - connected gangster when he stumbles across contraband heroine and decides to sell it himself.

Particularly cunning are a series of neatly embedded vengeance fables in which assassins eat their own, Ouroboros - style: killers who target serial killers; killers who target child killers; and killers who target «only mid - to high - ranking members of the Italian - American crime syndicate or the Yakuza.»

Second to that fun and charming tale of yakuza / doctor love, was Tyrant Who Falls In Love (Vol.

Title: Hayate the Combat Butler Genre: Action, Harem, Romance Author: Kenjiro Hata Synopsis: Hardworking Hayate has a plan to pay back the yakuza — who are now the legal owners of his body parts: he'll kidnap someone and ransom them for a mountain of money!

Part of the coolness is the humor of watching these two who've grown to loath each other in a short time be forced to act like a head - over-heels couple as they know they are constantly being spied on by their yakuza families.

Following the yakuza trail, we get to Rabbit Man, Tiger Man (Vol.02)-- a cute and comedic story about a growing relationship between a yakuza and the fidgety doctor who treats him.

Otherwise, the tea shop is secluded and rather abandoned looking, and the only customer is an old man who regularly comes by to check up on Ren... who happens to be a former yakuza.

And while you're there, take a minute to appreciate her review of Hello Baby, a one - shot title from Takeshi Obata (Death Note, Platinum End) and Masanori Morita (Rookies, Shiba Inu) that focuses on «wannabe gangster» who «plots to murder a high - ranking yakuza boss.»

It's even more about comedy than about hearts: the main character's the mild - mannered son of a yakuza clan («I'm a run - of - the - mill teenager, except for just one thing...») who has to pretend to be in love with a feisty gangster heiress to prevent their families from fighting.

Pretty much Monster Hunter World Ni No Kuni II Far Cry 5 God of War A Way out Yakuza 6: The Song of Life He could be playing any of those or even playing an older game who knows.

Attendees who visit the booth will also have the opportunity to receive special Yakuza - themed swag (as long as supplies last).

Nicknamed the Dragon of Dojima, Kiryu is a legend in the Yakuza world, and he's known as a man who gets things done.

Largely including music written by Andrew «zircon» Aversa (the game's programmer and designer), the Tangledeep soundtrack will also feature guest contributions by legendary composers such as Hiroki Kikuta of Secret of Mana and Seiken Densetsu 3 fame, Grant Kirkhope, composer for games like GoldenEye 007 and Banjo - Kazooie, and Norihiko Hibino, who has worked on such series as Metal Gear Solid, Yakuza, and Bayonetta.

Fun fact: that punk dude with white teeth who directs Yakuza games... is in fact the producer of F Zero GX and the creator of Super Monkey Ball.

For those who are picking up the game's Launch Edition, you can check the video below to see just how how extreme the Yakuza Kiwami launch edition is.