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Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuo Umemiya, Yumi Takigawa
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Graveyard of Honor |
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GRAVEYARD OF HONOR (Jingi no hakaba) is a movie directed by Kinji Fukasaku in 1975.
This is the story of the yakuza Ishikawa in the post-WWII Tokyo. Ishikawa distinguishes himself from his colleagues by disobeying the yakuza rules. When he finally hits his own boss, Ishikawa is banished from Tokyo by the Japanese mob. After only one year, a drug-addicted Ishikawa comes back in Tokyo, putting his friends in an awkward position.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Graveyard of Honor |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- Asian crime gangs
If this is a criminal POV story...
- one man's rise in a criminal organization
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
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:
- gang
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
City?
Yes
City:
- rude people
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- depressed/sad
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
Non-American film?
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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