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43: A Rough Guide to Yakuza Films

Sep 07, 20191 hr 39 min
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Episode description

It's time to protect your pinky fingers and learn how to gamble, this week Ben the Beardo and Dick Fetti present a rough guide to the Yakuza film genre. The boys give a brief history of the genre but primarily discuss their 5 personal favorite Yakuza films and how they fit into the genre. Specifically, the boys discuss Masahiro Shinoda's "Pale Flower"; Takashi Miike's "Fudoh: The New Generation"; Miike's "Dead or Alive"; Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage"; and finally Kitano's "Sonatine".
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