Movie: Crows: Episode 0
Japanese: Kurôzu zero (クロ - ズ ZERO)
Director: Takashi Miike
Written: Shogo Muto, from the manga by Takahashi Hiroshi
Product: Kazuya Hamana, Yamamoto Mataichiro
Cinema: Takumi Furuya
Editing: Shuichi Kakesu
Music: Naoki Otsubo
Release Date: October 27, 2007
Length: 129 min
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan
Plot:
Genji Takaya - son Hideo, a notorious Yakuza boss - It is a brawler, and intends to maintain this reputation even in school and in which 'just transfers, the' Boys Suzuran High ', an institute for rehabilitation criminals. Shortly after arriving on campus in fact, Genji comes to blows with Ken Katagiri, defeats him and forces him into submission and you earn his respect. When rumors began to circulate fight, Genji finds all boys 'high school ready to challenge him to show him who the most' strong, and the boss that Tamao Serizawa waits his turn at the bottom row.
Review:
Review: Takashi Miike is back on the track! After the partial disappointment of Sukiyaki Western: Django here he is back in fine form with this Crows - Episode 0, an action the school environment - from the manga by Hiroshi Takahashi - who dug out the Japanese box office film of the season 2007/2008. A film that works well both in terms of pure entertainment - never before had seen a Miike's work so upbeat, however, without its characteristic functional delays in the construction of the atmosphere - and as a nostalgic reflection on the early period of director, as well as a substantial sum of his previous work. By his own admission, the director has never been a model student, in fact, rather than spend his days bent over books he used to hang out with his peers - those like him allergic to the study - to navigate between races on a motorcycle and pachinko games, in addition to the inevitable clashes between youth gangs. Adolescence rock and roll, in fact. Moreover, even his choice to take over from the cameraman in Yokohama that was dictated by the fact that it was not necessary to pass any entrance examination to be able to enter, and the rest, as they say, is history. In Crows - Episode 0 then we find ourselves from the parts of films such as Young Thugs: Innocent Blood (Kishiwada shonen gurentai: Junji Chikemuri-hen - 1997) and Young Thugs: Nostalgia (Kishiwada shonen gurentai: Bo kyo - 1998), second and third installment of the trilogy based on the autobiographical stories Riich Nakaba, but Dead or Alive 2: Birds (Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha - 2000), although in these cases the purely nostalgic component is put in second place to that of pure entertainment, if the films mentioned above are perfectly the spleen director, veiled as they are of a slight melancholic vein, in this film is emphasized the playful component of adolescence, with young people playing at being grown-ups. The idea behind the Crows (certainly not original, there were already - to make a couple of examples - Toshiaki Toyoda's Blue Spring or Volcano High Korean Kim Tae-Gyun), which focuses on gangs of boys in the struggle for supremacy within a school, it goes perfectly with the theme miikiana the juxtaposition between purity and innocence of youth violence and its characteristics of maturity and culpability, it is easy then noted that despite numerous scenes used to represent the players beating each other's thrashing at the end of the film there is no permanent victim, as the foreign element to the death phase of existence on which the film focuses. Even the intervention of adult characters who live in close daily contact with the sad harvester, such as the yakuza boss played by Kenichi "Visitor Q" Endo - regular Miike - or the entire medical team that operates the young Tokyo, are able (in ways diametrically opposed) to avoid the risk of death imposed on the young players, which at first seem destined for a premature end. Except for these characters and a handful of supporting actors, including Hideo Takaya (played by Goro Kishitani, the unforgettable Rikuo Ishimatsu Graveyard Of Honour), the parent of the yakuza Genji co-star, adults are always kept on the edge and can never become involved It is no coincidence that the school in which the environmental events are never seen nor even the principal and teachers, but for a fleeting appearance in the very first scene (where it is clear that they are unable to control the rowdy students). The comic spirit is here taken to perfection, just like in some excellent work as director of Fudoh: The New Generation (Gokudo Sengokushi: Fudo - 1996) and Ichi the Killer (Koroshiya 1 to 2001), two films with which Crows - Episode 0 shares more than a few thing in common: think for example of the numerous battle scenes, where each successful hit is excessive since the explosive sound it produces, where bodies literally take flight (but, as mentioned above, are never life-threatening) and more often evoke more laughter than anything else - on all, the scene of bowling ball, one of the most exhilarating miikiana entire filmography. All the characters, despite dressed almost exclusively in black as ravens (who attend the institution named Suzuran Boys High School, or "school of crows"), are worthily represented thanks to improbable hairstyles, masks on the face and physical characteristics emphasized the excess (the huge sucker big girl from exile voice), and slavishly reflect those of the manga by Takahashi. Even the setting, with its splendid location right in the suburban street-style (but the film does not specify where exactly the school) emphasized by stunning photography from the dark shades / greyish Takumi Furuya, gives the whole film atmosphere cartoony and unreal. The case represented there is nothing new for those who already hangs in miikiani territories, as in the above-mentioned Fudoh or Ichi, but especially in the trilogy, Dead Or Alive or underestimated The Way To Fight (Kenka no Hanamichi: Oosaka Saikyo Densetsu - 1996), also in this case the film is based on two colorful characters (and their followers) that run continuously without direct confrontation, to reach the inevitable final showdown. The plot of Crows - Episode 0 in fact, focuses on the newcomer Genji, the son of a yakuza boss is also a former student of the institute, given the intention of wanting to unify all the school bands in one group, led by one leader (which is not hard to imagine), a company already attempted unsuccessfully by his father several years ago. He must then deal with the current boss of the school, Tamao Serizawa, who despite his angel's face seems to be a formidable opponent, feared by most students. Both leaders can - with good or bad - to create a group of allies, and in the striking final battle, in the pouring rain, will obviously be at odds though - as evidenced by the hooded figure of the mysterious student superhuman strength - discover that there is always someone stronger than them, a life lesson of humility and maybe that will be trivial, but in the hands of Miike manages to be convincing. Scattered along the entire film, you can find several typical traits of the cinema by the director of Osaka, in a game (self-) citations, more or less hidden: the long opening words rock and roll that is reminiscent of the Dead Or Alive (Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha - 1999), the Blues Harp (ibid., 1998) the final scene taken verbatim from Fudoh, there are numerous winks to his work in the past that Miike likes to spread the occasionally. Let me be clear, Crows - Episode 0 is not to be regarded as the masterpiece of the director, as part devoid of the depth that it otherwise can be found in its most successful films like Visitor Q (Visitor Q - Love Cinema Vol.6 - 2001), Izo (ibid., 2004) or much of the work mentioned above, but still a great entertainment product that conceals more than it may seem at first glance. And then you can not love a movie so damned rock and roll.
Source Review "asianfeast.org / dinamiike"
Comment:
I love this movie yesterday when I saw the beam in eng with two great bands "and kabocha BakaGirls" I was thrilled to tell the truth for me is a spectacular film that Takashi Miike and the best one ever made, See it and ^ ^ I love rimarette
Cast:
Shun Oguri - Genji Takaya Takayuki Yamada
- Tamao Serizawa
Kyosuke Yabe - Ken Katagiri
Sousuke Takaoka - Izak
Kuroki Meisa - Ruka Aizawa
Kenta Kiritani - Tokio
Tsutomu Takahashi - Takashi Makis
Suzunosuke - Chuta
Kaname Endo - Tokaji Yuji
Yusuke Kamijo - Yusuke Shoji Tsutsumoto
Izak -
Hisato Izak Manabu Mikami - Mikami Go
Dai Watanabe - Call
Motoki Fukami - Megumi Hayashida
Shunsuke Daito - Hiromi Kirishima
Yu Koyanagi - Makoto Sugihara
Yutaka Matsushige - Ushiyama
Sansei Shiomi - Yoshinobu Kuroiwa
Kenichi Endo - Joji Yazaki
Goro Kishitani - Hideo Takitani
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