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Upon learning of the story of Cinderella, most people spontaneously adopt the emotional perspective of this helpless young woman rather than of her older sisters who oppress her. The present research examines whether this pattern reveals a general human tendency to empathise more with the emotions o …
Sympathy for the Underdog . A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over. Year. 1971. Movie time. 93 min . Directed by. Kinji Fukasaku . Cast. Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Ts ...
Mad Dog Jiro. Akiko Kudô. Actor. Kenjiro Morokado. Gushken. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. A gangster (Kôji Tsuruta) makes powerful enemies after taking over the liquor trade.
- Crime, Drama
Stylish and hard-boiled, Sympathy for the Underdog stars Koji Tsuruta, one of Japan’s seminal figures in the Yakuza genre, as Gunji, an aging Yakuza who is released from prison after ten years. Gunji lives by a code of honor that has no place among Tokyo’s modern corporate gangs. He gets a new lease on life by reforming his former gang and ...
Though Sympathy for the Underdog feels almost quaint compared to the bloody, seething nihilism of Battles Without Honor and Humanity or even of Sympathy’s immediate follow-up, Street Mobster, the mixture of ultra-modern style and vintage themes is effective and makes it easy to see why Quentin Tarantino, whose own films often apply glossy new surfaces to tatty old genres, is such a fan of ...
5. Aug. 2019 · SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG (Bakuto gaijin butai) (director/writer: Kinji Fukasaku; screenwriter: Fumio Konami; cinematographer: Hanjiro Nakazawa; editor: Osamu Tanaka; music: Takeo Yamashita; cast: Koji Tsuruta (Gunji), Noboru Ando (Shark), Kenji Imai (Mad Dog Jiro), Kenjiro Morokado (Gushken), Tomisaburo Wakayama (Yanabara), Rinichi Yamamoto (Haderuma); Runtime: 93; MPAA Rating: NR; producers ...
Looking for new opportunities, he gathers his old crew and heads for the island of Okinawa, a legal grey zone ripe for the taking. Made just before Kinji (Yakuza Graveyard) Fukasaku's 1970s streak of yakuza movie masterpieces, Sympathy for the Underdog is a key film in the development of this director's unique style and themes. FEATURES:
