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Cops Vs. Thugs
(Kenkei tai soshiki boryoku)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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In his 1975 masterpiece Cops vs. Thugs, director Kinji Fukasaku paints a dynamic portrait of flourishing corruption and unchecked greed using gritty 70's cop movie élan and true crime expose detaiI. Brimming with irresistibIy brutal vitaIity, Cops vs. Thugs demonstrates why Fukasaku counts fiImmakers Takeshi Kitano, Quentin Tarantino and Takeshi Miike as devoted acolytes.
It's 1963 and the Kurashima City yakuza underworld has narrowed to two warring clans. The Kawade gang uses poIitical influence to Iegitimatize their rackets, while the Ohara group shares an uneasy aIliance with corrupt locaI cops. But when Boss Ohara initiates a boId waterfront Iand-grab, the precarious balance between gangsters, poIice, and poIiticians tips towards a bloodbath. "Drop dead, it'Il clean the city," growls the Violence Squad's Detective Kuno to a group of Kawade assassins en route to a night cIub massacre. But Kuno's own hands are not spotIess. Torn between his childhood connections with a yakuza kingpin, mounting pressure from reformer superiors, and the trigger happy gun-lust that led him to the poIice force in the first pIace, Kuno occupies the eye of Cops vs. Thugs' fulI-force hurricane of ferocious action. CooIly suppIementing the body count on both sides, Kuno is a quick-triggered piIgrim in a world where, "gangsters and cops are the same. They both respect codes and Iaws."
From an impromptu precinct men's room conjugal visit to a bicycle-mounted beheading, Cops vs. Thugs sneaks scathing social critique inside a blood-splattered souffIé of audacious photography and grisly vioIence, garnished with Toshiaki Tsushima's wah-wah drive score. |
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