Fasten your seatbelt. This yakuza thriller is not what it appears.
Meet the stolid character of Shuji (Jo Shishido), who has been instructed to assassinate a rival crime-gang figure who has gotten "greedy." Shuji sets this up with surgical precision, tipping well along the way. His challenge, post-hit, is simple -- keeping the dead guy's goons from killing him and his sidekick Shun (Jerry Fugio).
Shuji -- hitman and man of integrity -- never reveals his hand. When it looks like he's abandoning Shun to save his own skin, think again.
I've read online that the yakuza films are descendants of the samurai genre, and one can believe that, with "Colt's" amazing climax.
The film bogs down a bit with scenes at a motel and a desultory effort to bring women into the story, but these little flaws are excusable given the overall quality of this production.
In all, this is an impressive paean to thinking ahead and planning well.
As Shuji assures Shun: "We've been in fixes like this before, and we've gotten out every time."
Good guidance for us all!
Meet the stolid character of Shuji (Jo Shishido), who has been instructed to assassinate a rival crime-gang figure who has gotten "greedy." Shuji sets this up with surgical precision, tipping well along the way. His challenge, post-hit, is simple -- keeping the dead guy's goons from killing him and his sidekick Shun (Jerry Fugio).
Shuji -- hitman and man of integrity -- never reveals his hand. When it looks like he's abandoning Shun to save his own skin, think again.
I've read online that the yakuza films are descendants of the samurai genre, and one can believe that, with "Colt's" amazing climax.
The film bogs down a bit with scenes at a motel and a desultory effort to bring women into the story, but these little flaws are excusable given the overall quality of this production.
In all, this is an impressive paean to thinking ahead and planning well.
As Shuji assures Shun: "We've been in fixes like this before, and we've gotten out every time."
Good guidance for us all!