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By Dean Brierly
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (1963)
The early 1960s proved to be a transitional period for Japanese director Seijun Suzuki. After churning out numerous yakuza films for Nikkatsu throughout the 1950s, the director began to rebel against the creative limitations imposed by the studio. Fed up with clichéd scenarios and adherence to stylistic conventions, Suzuki began infiltrating subversive visual flourishes to make things more interesting for himself and his audiences. Nineteen-sixty-three is widely regarded as the year Suzuki fully became Suzuki, starting with Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! Although it doesn’t scale the delirious heights of the more famous Tokyo Drifter (1966) and Branded to Kill (1967)—whose visual and narrative anarchy got him fired from Nikkatsu—the film still turns the yakuza genre on its head through Suzuki’s hyperbolic approach.
Story
Jo Shisido stars as Tajima,...
By Dean Brierly
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (1963)
The early 1960s proved to be a transitional period for Japanese director Seijun Suzuki. After churning out numerous yakuza films for Nikkatsu throughout the 1950s, the director began to rebel against the creative limitations imposed by the studio. Fed up with clichéd scenarios and adherence to stylistic conventions, Suzuki began infiltrating subversive visual flourishes to make things more interesting for himself and his audiences. Nineteen-sixty-three is widely regarded as the year Suzuki fully became Suzuki, starting with Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! Although it doesn’t scale the delirious heights of the more famous Tokyo Drifter (1966) and Branded to Kill (1967)—whose visual and narrative anarchy got him fired from Nikkatsu—the film still turns the yakuza genre on its head through Suzuki’s hyperbolic approach.
Story
Jo Shisido stars as Tajima,...
- 11/22/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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