Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Polaris_DiB Shew! One time when I was reading one of many reviews of one of many Miike works, somebody used the phrase" Miike's personal brand of surreal gangster flicks." That there would be the perfect way to describe Fudoh: The New Generation. While showing off Miike's obvious inspiration in Kenji Fukasaku movies, he goes about it by way of Luis Bunuel, both delighting in the absurd while paying close attention to making it follow continuity and a dreamy sense of realism (inherent contradiction intentional). I'd like to call it, "like Gozu, but to the Yakuza genre than to the horror genre", but, well, again Miike defies genre base; after all, Gozu was about the tribulations of a Yakuza member, too.But honestly, Fudoh: The New Generation does stand out in Miike's ever increasing oeuvre. It's interesting that, although reading a filmography of his makes it seem like he throws in the random classic in a long line of b-movies, it's actually the other way around, and some of the more ridiculously titled of his films are actually the better ones (Fudoh, Big Bang Love Juvenile A, Visitor Q). Fudoh: The New Generation is certainly one of the more underrated of his work. It showcases his general propensity towards over the top violence, sex, and body horror, but nonetheless proves that he's capable of some very effective drama, zany humor, and even disturbing social commentary, as needed. In a way, his best movies are the ones that reflect his oeuvre as a whole: strange, unpredictable, and all over the emotional spectrum in terms of how it affects you.This time, though, there's something of an interesting metanarrative point: the theme of Fudoh is stated when the eponymous character says, "New blood must replace the old, else the body dies." Young Fudoh is talking about the Yakuza. Miike is talking about the Yakuza genre. This movie is about the love, honor, and respect of a well-known genre of Japanese film-making while also delighting in subverting its every cliché. I compare it to The Yakuza Papers, but not lightly: whereas the earlier series of films are obviously a cataclyst for the hyperactive styling of this new, younger generation of Japanese filmmakers, it still takes its traditional themes seriously, Godfather-like. Here, Miike throws the playful, the absurd, and the hermaphroditic into previously assumed roles and lets the blood spray when needed, lets it not when necessary.It may be unpredictable, but it's far from absurd. I would actually recommend Fudoh: The New Generation to someone not previously exposed to Miike, because it's extreme without being too challenging on the viewer's sensibilities like Ichi or Audition, idiosyncratic without being too clandestine like Big Bang Love, and dramatic without being too reminiscent of previously established forms like Rainy Dogs. It's a good introductory movie to the fascinations of a prolific filmmaker whose every movie excites a feeling of the random and bizarre and yet don't fall into sorry repetition.Definitely a must see, this one.--PolarisDiB

christopher-underwood As always Takashi films are difficult to sum up in a few words. Yes very violent, but not gut wrenchingly so, because of the over the top nature and comic side (both manga and funny!) more sex than usual, although not erotic, of course. For the record we have a lady yakuza member whose tattoo only appears as her body heats up, killer schoolgirls (including one who fires darts from down below!) and an hermaphrodite schoolgirl. A little confusing at first but it soon settles down to revenge and then revenge etc. The major twist is father killing son and vice versa + the use of children as killers. Violent fun most of the way and always looking good this maybe is not as tight as some of his others.

Nicholas Phillips Little Riki Fudoh (Shosuke Tanihara) plays catch with his older brother, who is also ordering a hit by phone, in the well-manicured backyard of their father's Kobe estate. Meanwhile, a gap-toothed old gaijin, and his swimming goggles-wearing Japanese partner, pour bullet after bullet through bathroom stall doors into Nohma family drug dealers. In retaliation, Daigen Nohma orders and receives the assassins' heads. At Nioh Temple (aka. "Dope Temple"), father Iwao Fudoh and his allied gang bosses hold a tense meeting. That night, Iwao beheads Riki's older brother in his sleep in hope of averting a full-scale gang war.Ten years pass. Riki reminds his father in front of the family shrine of the anniversary of his brother's death. Iwao is meeting the mayor and couldn't care less, but Riki has already set his plans in motion. Old Ryuji Komoku, one of Iwao's four fellow executives, returns to his car from morning batting practice to find two children playing the crane game for prizes. As he berates them for skipping school, they pull out guns and shoot him and his bodyguards to death. That night, Akira Jikoku, another executive, is traveling handcuffed in the back of a squad car with two detectives. As they stop at a gas station, he smugly assures them that the arrest is futile. Mika, a perky girl dressed as an attendant, delivers them "complimentary coffee." The coffee is poisoned and Akira dies vomiting up great gouts of blood. She strips off the disguise and, in her sailor fuku, quickly walks off.The next day, a giant of a man beats up a yakuza pimp, instead of paying for the hooker he injured with his "eggplant dick," and rides his motorcycle to school. Mika-the-murderous- schoolgirl sharpens a dart in English class. An abusive English teacher meets Riki after class and begs him to accept partial repayment for loaned drugs. Riki throws the money on the floor and tells his teacher to commit suicide. Flanked by young yakuza, Riki dominates nightlife in the Nakasu district and impresses the giant. Mika works nights at a strip club popping balloons with her vagina-powered blowgun. The male voice of club techno repeatedly enjoins, "Just do that thing." She fires a dart that flies in one ear and out the other, pinning a bit of boss Tenkai Zocho's brain to wall.As the following day dawns, a second schoolgirl assassin posing as a holy water delivery girl empties her MAC10 (with silencer and extended magazine) on Bishamon Tobatsu and his underlings. Back at school, the giant confronts Riki and takes a menstrual fluid coated blow dart to the hand. He joins up. Riki shows his new friend their training ground at the railroad tracks, where little boys play soccer with the English teacher's head. Under cover of night, Riki and his gang wipe out the surviving clan leaders at Dope Temple. Iwao begins working covertly with Nohma to kill his son. When Riki's two little boys botch the assassination of Nohma, who turns them into a pair of loosely tied garbage bags. Iwao has his half-Korean bastard son, Akihiro Gondo, infiltrate the school as a new teacher.The giant's bike explodes when he turns the key in the ignition, hospitalizing him. Gondo disarms the gun-toting schoolgirl and fatally defenestrates her. A female substitute teacher reveals to the depressed genital circus performer that she used to be the girlfriend of Riki's older brother. Mika reveals that she is actually a hermaphrodite. Having commiserated, they copulate. The next night, while Mika performs, Gondo sets off an acid trap rigged to the ceiling, hospitalizing and permanently disfiguring her. Riki enters Gondo's apartment and learns the truth, but Gondo nearly kills him. Riki is saved by his brother's ex-girlfriend and her laser-sighted Desert Eagle magnum handgun. When Iwao tries to decapitate Riki, who was pretending to sleep, Riki grabs the blade and declares, "The era of a child sacrificing himself for a parent is over." Iwao pulls a revolver and lands all six bullets on Riki's chest, but Riki was wearing body armor. Riki then beheads his father. Now in charge of what's left of the Fudoh family, Riki ignites the gang war with Nohma that his brother tried to spark.

oneinfinity After being blown away by Audition I thought I'd better get more acquainted with Miike. After reading reviews and reader comments I decided to go back a little and start with Fudoh. In short, I can't believe this movie was made by the same director as Audition. There's no need to go into details of the film really given all the other reviews, just suffice it to say, if you're expecting Audition quality material, forget it. If you're looking for the Japanese equivalent of a straight to video b-movie action pic, with a script that occasionally flirts with intelligence, you might like it. I didn't.4 of 10