Cathardincu
Surprisingly incoherent and boring
UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Ogosmith
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Donald Seymour
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
Elliot James
A top notch film-noir from Japan that was well ahead of its time and is still relevant today. The acting is tremendous as was usually the case in Japanese dramas of that era. It moves at a good pace despite the fact that it's primarily a talking heads movie with very little action. The violence and sexual situations are very realistic. Lead character Asahina pointlessly has his unwilling hostess girlfriend have sex with the ruthless president of the rival Yamato company so she can sneak a look at the retail price difference between both competing cars, a totally unnecessary act since Tiger severely undercuts their price anyway, rendering knowledge of the price difference meaningless. (The Tiger executives know Yamato is selling their car for a million yen plus an unknown additional amount so Tiger drops their million yen car to 990,000 yen. It's this additional number the girl is sent to find out.) It's either a script hole or meant to show the gutter level of Asahina's immorality. He keeps pushing the girl to bed Yamato's president for most of the film. What she sees in him is never analyzed.
evilfrog-2
This film noir from Japan is quite an interesting little genre movie. Shot beautifully in black and white, the film is concerned with the moral decrepitude that results from corporate warfare. There is a sordid edge to this film that reminds me of Sam Fuller's work.The story is told in a very matter-of-fact manner, though the director does indulge in some interesting camera angles. There was an atmosphere of suspicion around everyone in the film that remains unresolved until the end... By the end of the film it is clear that there are no moral winners in this war; both sides have become monstrous in their willingness to go to any length to win.
