Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

as a fan of japan extreme cinema Takashi Miike is one of my favorite director in the world.After seeing his morden stuff like Audition,Ichi the killer,13 assassins i really curious to watch his older stuff and Fudoh:the new generation came to my mind and i have to say:Oh boy what a movie.The movie is about a young boy named Riki after witnessing his father kill his older brother grew up become a young yakuza boss and set up a plan to eliminated all the people who involved in his brother death in a very crude and brutal.Apart from the ultra violent and how over the top this movie is i find the crime drama very interesting and it makes you go from a surprise to another surprise in a very twisted way.The music composed by Chu Ishikawa whom you may know for the Tetsuo the iron man soundtrack is awesome as always but the problem of this movie is it end with a cliffhanger and i really want to know what happen next but to bad the sequels never been made

Although this was his first hit, this is not Miike's best. It lacks the humanity of Blues Harp and the Shinjuku Triad Society trilogy, but is squeezed full of imaginative violence and wicked slaughter.This is the closest Miike has ever got to making a Fukasaku film, which is not in itself a good thing - Miike is, in terms of strings to his bow, a superior director to Fukasaku, whose films are shallow and hectic marathons of murder. FUDOH is an enjoyable romp, but offers little more than a quick blast of action and horror. It is as wooden and cartoon-like as The City of Lost Souls - an arguably superior picture - and as blackly vicious (as well as less confused and one-dimensional) as Battle Royale. An ideal film if you're looking for some no-holds-barred carnage, and you're bored of John Woo's endless slo-mo.7/10

For the most part Takeshi Miike's movies have been getting weirder and weirder, so if you've already experienced the likes of 'Ichi The Killer' and 'Visitor Q' his earlier movies (e.g. 'Rainy Dog') might seem a bit tame and too "normal". Not so 'Fudoh: The New Generation'! Eight years old, which is a lifetime in Miike's world (60 movies since 1991!), it's still as outrageous as ever. This was the movie that started Miike's reputation as being one of the most wildest and inventive directors in the world. The bare bones of the plot makes it sound like countless other yakuza movies, but Miike continually shocks and subverts his audience. This is one movie you just have to see to believe! Shosuke Tanihara plays Riki Fudoh, teenage son of crime boss Iwao Fudoh (Tôru Minegishi). Fudoh senior sacrificed Riki's older brother Ryu when Riki was a child. Now that Riki is older he plans an audacious plan of revenge, using his own gang of child assassins and sexy schoolgirls, one of whom dispatches her victims via a blow gun she fires from her vagina. 'Fudoh' will have you giggling insanely throughout. Just how does Miike get away with it?! It's also one of the most entertaining and exciting action movies I've ever seen, up there with Miller's 'Mad Max 2', Hill's 'The Driver', Peckinpah's 'The Getaway', Rodriguez's 'El Mariachi' and Ishii's 'The Black Angel'. Most Hollywood action movies these days send me to sleep. I tried watching 'The Fast And The Furious' the other night for example and gave up after becoming bored to tears. Tarantino's mind blowing 'Kill Bill: Vol 1' is the one recent notable exception. Is it any wonder that it was heavily inspired by asian cinema both old and new, including the work of Takashi Miike? I think not. If you enjoyed 'Kill Bill: Vol 1' check out Miike's 'Fudoh' and 'Ichi' and 'Dead Or Alive' trilogy, and Kinji Fukasaku's amazing 'Battle Royale', and you'll immediately see the energy and black humour that Tarantino is currently drawing upon. 'Fudoh: The New Generation' is an instant classic. Fans of action, crime, or exploitation movies will eat it up!

Im a fan of violent cinema. I like shocking things. I love Japanese Cinema. I've seen all kinds of stuff. Then i heard about Takashi Miike Ive heard about his movies. I couldnt find any of his stuff except for bootlegs on DVD, and im iffy about buying things. Then i found a video store that rented some of his stuff. I rented FUDO first. MY GOD, it was UNLIKE ANYTHING I HAD EVER SEEN. The blood, the SEX, my god the sex. The killings. Dear god. Since then i have taken up my lifes work to watch everything this man puts his filthy hads on. If you love Japanese Cinema, YOU MUST SEE THIS FILM.