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Gangster No. 1 (2000)
This is utter w**kery.
I found most of the director's tricks and conventions to be self-indulgent and inappropriate... a lot of the handheld bull, distortive lenses, stutter-cuts, etc. McDowell at his most caricatured, as the lead "Gangster," a character too simplistic to garner sympathy or hate.
The writing was very broad, and the dialogue truly terrible... for the awkward pauses between exchanges if not for the cliches, streams of banal obscenity, and a plot that does not even live up to the Shakespeare it hopes to reference.
Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai (1964)
Colorful, comedic, fast-paced "Bond"-style escapades!
I was lucky to see this amazing film as part of a Suzuki showcase at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A young man has more adventure than he can handle with murderous intrigue, two beautiful girlfriends, and an interfering mother in a hilarious send-up with a chilling noir sense of criminal passion and the hot & campy sexiness of a Bond flick.