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[doug maverick]

i should maybe put this on the miike thread if it gets merged its cool. so i saw this film last night(special thanks to SLL, for hooking me up with the "copy") so ok here we go:


the film centers around genji takaya and his aim to take over suzuran high school from its current leader tamao serizawa and his one time junior high school pal, tokio tatsukawa. i gotta say i liked this film, it was funny and the action was brutal, there was some corny moments like when the love interest is suppose to sing an RnB song but really its just pop music dont know if they know the difference in japan but the whole singing bit was kinda corny and pointless. the other thing is the character tokio had a brain hemorrhage which again served no purpose in the context of the story. but the film was still good, i could nit pick and over analyze(just remember the first four letters in analyze is anal, so when you over analyze your being an a$$) but this movie was not made for that, actually it was very much like the korean film volcano high except that no teachers got involved and nobody had powers. there were alot of kick ass moments in this film and i would recommend it. only thing is i wish i was a teenager when this film came out i would have loved this film i would have been going crazy for it, probably dressing like the characters in it. but now at 25 its just kinda juvenile but still cool to watch, my palate is a little more sophisticated(i blame film school personally). anyway check this one out, im going to pick up the sequal once it comes out here.

[Shaolinlueb]

volcano high was kinda garbage compared to this.

what i liked is that when they fought, they fought. not have dbz like battles.

yeah if i was in highschool i would have gone around owning people like genji.

believe it or not wish serizawa won. but this film was bad ass. definetly one of miike's better works.

not done on cheap film either.

[doug maverick]

well thats one thing i liked about that fight. you didnt know who was gonna when. the actors where acting the fights.

[brothernumber9]

I got this one late last year. I agree, better than Volcano High. The final fight was a bit too choppy for me and included too much of the slow-mo sequences, but I like the simplified kinda story. A micro-cosm of the triad world inside of a highschool, each group fighting for supremacy. If they make a sequel, I'll watch it. The "freshman" group should get their turn, they had some wild looking characters that looked intriguing. Although the movie was full of holes, the actors were very characteristic of how I would imagine them to be in an anime, which I liked.

[doug maverick]

actually miike has made a sequel, dont know if its out yet thou. but looking forward to seing this one.

[GeneChing]

I mentioned it on the Miike thread.