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Actors: Koji Tsuruta, Noboru Ando
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Gamblers in Okinawa |
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GAMBLERS IN OKINAWA (Bakuto gaijin butai), also known as "Gambler: Foreign Opposition" in the U.S.A. is a movie written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku in 1971.
Gunji, a former gang leader, is leaving the prison after 10 years of imprisonment. The docks of Yokohama are now under the yakuza boss Uba's control. Gunji decides to leave Yokohama and heads to the island of Okinawa with his old lieutenants. He will try to overcome there one by one the local gangs and become the new boss of Okinawa.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Gamblers in Okinawa |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- gang conflict
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals killing each other
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- white
Hair type
- (man) bald
Body type
- fat (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Island?
Yes
Island:
- Pacific Island
City?
Yes
City:
- rude people
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Kind of violence:
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Japanese
Subtitles?
- Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Jazz/r&b
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