Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Doktor Hackenbush If this movie has to be called the Miike's masterpiece, I wonder how bad will be the others. Miike desperately tries to find elements of surprise, in the way the killers act or in the exaggeration of the blood. Really funny the killing of the second old man, with all that blood impossibly flooding a car. It was actually a quite "tromic" image but, unfortunately, I think that Miike takes himself at least as seriously as his stupid characters do: it was merely an impact, with no sense of humor. That's why the ongoing surprises of the movie (strange killers, killings, blood, that's all; well, it has also a couple of unnecessary sex scenes among human beings!! Genius!!) are less and less surprising every time, and the movie gets more and more boring. The ending is the peak of the boringness and lack of surprise.And please, bad Japanese directors, don't use those cheap "haiku" phrases with such stupid characters. It's unbearable to see a "chic" emo-killer acting as if he were a zen-poet: this is nothing more than the movie of the vagina-gun, man!!!!In spite of reading some of the enthusiastic critics on this movie, with the analysis of its symbolism, the nonsense of the violence, the difficult relationship between fathers and sons, "the important questions the director asks to the world", etcetera, etcetera..., I still consider that Shakespeare is better than Miike.

grendel-37 Not my cup of tea.Miike seems to have a cult following of desensitized, budding little sociopaths that hyena bark themselves silly anytime he shows people crapping on camera or a killer vagina.Miike seems to be a director for a generation raised on Fear Factor, for a generation raised on the idea that the suffering and humiliation of others and themselves, the defilement of themselves, makes for good entertainment.He's a director for a soulless generation that thinks SIN CITY or BORN NATURAL KILLERS or SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE are great moves.I don't quite fall in that category, so I can only review his films... as films. Based on an archaic morality, based on an absurd idea, that a movie at its worst... should be unpleasant to lead us to some worthy conclusion, not be unpleasant for its own sake.In Fudoh, it's all sensationalism.But sensationalism devoid of a story or characters you care the least amount about, sensationalism devoid of any real center or real sense of concern for the people who dance on the screen in front of you... sensationalism for its own sake is pornography in the real sense of that word.I've got no problem with adults being adults, with sex, or naked people, I'm no type of prude, (heck I'm a huge fan of films from CASABLANCA to DEVIL AND MRS. JONES to John Woo's THE KILLERS) but I have a problem with films that dehumanize us, and desensitize us, that have no joy in them, that feed are baser serial-killer want-to-be instincts without any thought to our higher ones.And Fudoh (and Dead Alive, a movie that I found even more of a waste of film) is such a movie. About young gangsters and vengeance ostensibly. But its really just a loose excuse to string together a string of shock and gore.I bought Fudoh (I can buy for the price of renting usually)based on reviews posted here, and promptly sold Fudoh.Not my cup of tea.

EVOL666 Another knock-out by Takashi Miike!!! This one is a doozy... Pre-teen assassins, a chick that can shoot darts out of her p***y, hermaphrodite hit men (hitwomen?), and more bullets and blood than you can shake a samurai sword at. FUDOH is action packed and grabs you from the very first scene. If you are into extreme Asian action, then this should be right up your alley. If your idea of extreme action is Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Segal, then you have no idea what you're in for. If you haven't already, also check out ICHI THE KILLER - another Miike masterpiece, both are incredible. I really can't say which film I like better. - Highly recommended 9 1/2 out of 10.

jtourbro How can you not love this movie? If you have any sense of humor you'll love this completely over-the-top far-out yakuza-high school flick. It's about the young Fudoh taking on the established yakuza with a ragtag band of hitmen. They include a school girl with a vaginal blowpipe (has to be seen to be believed!), and two little kids who has to shoot back-to-back because the recoil would otherwise knock them over. The film has a high tempo and constantly surprises and amazes. If you haven't seen any of Miikes films this is a great place to start, and if you have you've got to see this right away!9/10