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The Wicked Reporter (1993)

極道記者

100 min

Country: Japan

Director: Rokuro Mochizuki

Actors: Eiji OkudaHakuryûMaiko KawakamiReiko IkegamiRen OsugiToshiyuki Kitami

Genres: Crime

Subtitle: English

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More than his indie debut Skinless Night, this was the film that launched Mochizuki on his distinctive trajectory through the crime and yakuza genres. Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda) is a racing tipster for a sports paper, a lowlife who spends half his time drunk, hangs out with yakuza and other riff-raff and complicates his sex life by succumbing to advances from his girlfriend’s sister. As played by Okuda, he’s also a figure of considerable hangdog charm. Less a plot-based movie than a guide to the several forms of high stakes gambling in Japan, this centres on his attempt to help a friend swindled in a bent mahjong game. Hakuryu appears (memorably) as an inscrutable yakuza in a black leather jacket. The film’s success led to two sequels.

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