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Shinjuku Triad Society [1995] | ![Shinjuku Triad Society [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51D35BJ534L._SL75_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Kippei Shiina, Tomorowo Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar, Ren Osugi, Airi Yanagi
Studio: Tartan Video
Category: Video
List Price: £15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Format: Pal, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 100
Discs: 1
EAN: 5023965442529
ASIN: B00008YNI7
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: May 26, 2003
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 Good, but only if you like Miike August 6, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Director Takashi Miike, is one of those directors you will either love or hate, theres no half measures in any of his work (apparantly he shoots around 5 movies a year) and this film is no different...
Basically a gangster movie, a Thaiwanese gang(the dragons claw) are looking to push the local yakuza gang out of the lucrative Shinjuku area of Tokyo. Specialising in drugs, gay prostition, extortion and the sale of human organs. One cop (as always)is determined to bring this to a halt before more blood is spilt, while his younger brother is the lawyer of the dragons claw gangs leader.
What follows is a brutal and often disturbing look at how this seedy underworld district operates. There are no good guys in this film, the lead cop is often as reprehensible in his actions as the men he pursues, but each characters lack of morals in 'buisness' is often counter-balanced by their concern for the people they care about in private (the cop wants to get his brother away from this life so he doesnt end up like him) which means the interplay between the characters is often interesting....
However this film does have its flaws, Miike has a propensity to want to shock and revolt his audience, to expose our own lack of concern that we watch these violent movies by making them as horrific as possible. When it works its compelling, when it doesnt, it just seems pointless. There are certain scenes which seem to have no meaning, the cop, leads a suspect into an interrogation room and questions him whilst another cop sodomises the suspect (no really) to make him talk, in Miikes world anything goes and it doesnt matter if it doesnt make sense. This is all well and good, but at times you get the feeling hes doing it purely for the sake of it, and gives wieght to those who critisce him as a one trick pony...He's not, he's better than that and overall, this film is a pretty good indicator of his talents...
 A great DVD!!! July 21, 2003
14 out of 19 found this review helpful
I had doubts about purchasing this DVD. Tartan Video, the label that is releasing SHINJUKU TRIAD SOCIETY also put out AUDITION and the RING DVDs which were utter garbage - the DVDs not the films. AUDITION was so dark you sometimes couldn't even make out what was going on onscreen! But with this, their latest release, it looks like they've learnt a thing or two. While the picture quality isn't perfect (grainy, slight problems with blacks) it is actually BETTER that the Japanese DVD, the only other DVD release of this film so far! Plus Tartan thankfully was able to score a print without the burnt in Japanese subtitles for the Chinese dialogue that riddled the Japanese DVD! Take that and add removable English subtitles (albeit with slight timing problems), an anamorphic transfer, subtitled trailers for other Miike films and an awesome exclusive on-camera inerview with Miike and you got one great DVD! I definitely recommend this DVD to any fan of Takashi Miike's films and violent, gritty gangster films in general.I for one will definitely buy RAINY DOG and LEY LINES from Tartan as well.
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