I have seen some very good work from Takashi Miike - Ichi the Killer, Graveyard of Honor - but this was a real disappointment. There were only a few instances of fighting and two were a real disappointment.
The basic story is simple. A failed boxer and minor thug named named Junpei (Daisuke Nagakure) decides to take a Yakuza group's money and run. He gets caught and sent to prison after hiding the money. When he gets out of prison, he hires Kiba (Takeshi Yamato) to go get the money with him so he can return it and free his girl. Only he doesn't know she is with someone else now. Did he think she was going to wait for him? There was one instance where one Karate master took on seven with various weapons. The whole thing was over in a minute! At the end, there was a Rocky/Apollo Creed match between the bodyguard and a local cop. It lasted 30 seconds! There was just too little action and too much talking.
The basic story is simple. A failed boxer and minor thug named named Junpei (Daisuke Nagakure) decides to take a Yakuza group's money and run. He gets caught and sent to prison after hiding the money. When he gets out of prison, he hires Kiba (Takeshi Yamato) to go get the money with him so he can return it and free his girl. Only he doesn't know she is with someone else now. Did he think she was going to wait for him? There was one instance where one Karate master took on seven with various weapons. The whole thing was over in a minute! At the end, there was a Rocky/Apollo Creed match between the bodyguard and a local cop. It lasted 30 seconds! There was just too little action and too much talking.