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The Taste of Tea
Plucked from VarietyAsianOnline, this is a sound review of Takashi Miike and Masashi Sogo’s adaptation of the PS2 video game ‘Yakuza’. Miike helmed the picture and Sogo wrote the screenplay. It screened at the PiFan Festival the other week.
Japan maverick Takashi Miike provides an object lesson in how to transfer computer games to the bigscreen in “Like a Dragon.” Blithely ignoring the opportunities for a CGI-stuffed extravaganza, helmer simply stir-fries his usual mixture of psychopathic gangsters, black humor and childlike innocence into a fast-paced, character-heavy yarn—set during a single sweltering night—that’s one of his most purely enjoyable pics in ages. Released theatrically in Japan in March, and due on DV there this fall, “Dragon” deserves to roar through the latenight fest circuit, followed by lively ancillary action among Occidental buffs.
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