The Yakuza (1974)
Robert Mitchum, Sydney Pollack, Paul Schrader, Robert Towne... is it possible that this murderer’s row was involved with an ABZ movie?? You’re goddamn right, THE YAKUZA this week. That’s a lot of talent but rest assured, the Boyz find away to go low.
What a world where Gwildor is part of a discussion about THE YAKUZA.
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I rented this movie tonight, absolutely 5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Movie. Thanks Action Boyz, great recommend.
Hell yeah
I literally dated a girl that did the finger gun thing and sound after sex everytime. Once right after I gave her an orgasm, say "eh ya got me" (fingergun)
Hey, I’m a new Shadow Wolf, what’s up!!
Anyone else play the Yakuza game series?
They look wild are they any good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPY8qUG_Koo
Loved the episode, definitely check out The Challenge starting Scott Glenn another 80’s forgotten movie
Now I'm primed to hear an episode on The Challenge (1982) with Scott Glenn and Toshiro Mifune someday while waxing the floors.
If ya got TCM and wanna see a super young James Shigeta, they got The Crimson Kimono on Friday night
Be wild if the next episode they just can't stop saying buchinski
Really thrown for a loop with everyone saying my name so much in this episode
Loved hearing about the Planet Hollywood Hawaiian shirts. I worked there for a year in 1998 in Beverly Hills and proudly wore that cool shirt. Will Smith and Gabriel Byrne tipped me $100 at different son’s bday parties, we had a lot of fun dealing with a very drunk Stephen Dorff at the Blade premiere, saw Fiona Apple blow PT Anderson during a private screening and Bruce Willis’ mom was super fun and nice. She told us the story of how Bruce is deaf in his leaf ear from Die Hard when he shoots guy from under the table. 5 stars.
Fiona borrowing a page from the Alanis playbook
Found this on YouTube; enjoy: https://youtu.be/w-KoebXfESM
When I was a kid my mom’s cousin taught at a school in Japan and would bring students to the US for a few weeks during summer vacation. One year we brought a kid to the mall and a biker with sleeve tattoos walked by. She freaked out because she thought he was Yakuza. Thankfully she chilled out after a hilarious screening of “Problem Child”
Always knew Mitchum was a pot guy, like he did 50 days in jail in 1948 when he was already a movie star for smoking a joint at a party, real LA Confidential kinda bullshit but I didn't know "When Mitchum was just a teenager he had left home to live the hobo lifestyle, hopping trains going cross country. During his hobo days Mitchum picked up a lifelong habit of smoking marijuana." fuckin awesome
No clue how problematic it is, but he also recorded a calypso album. For anyone interested in more Mitchum: out of the past, crossfire, Macao, blood on the moon, friends of Eddie coyle, and the original version of cape fear are all good. But def night of the hunter, that’s a goddamn classic
Kilmer definitely mutters, "we're gonna go eat fish off those naked chicks" after Tanaka snuffs Kato.
Turtleneck Talk: I watched Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud (1970) last week and Michael Murphy plays a sendup of Frank Bullitt - Detective Frank Shaft. His introduction scene is five minutes of unpacking suitcases full of turtlenecks, great movie. Most here would know him as the mayor from Batman Returns.
Ranger Burgers and insurance scams. That's a t shirt.
I'll gladly sign up for the Big Jon tier that's just Gabrus telling stories about his dad/family.
This was such a fun watch, I had not seen it before.. I miss the pacing of 70s movies. Also, Ken Takakura is a fucking smoke show in this, every wardrobe change is perfection.
I've got to say: I liked this movie. But then again I love Yakuza stuff especially the Beat Takeshi movies of the last two decades.
Sonatine is his masterpiece.
finally saw The World According To Garp, pretty good. Trigger warning for Gabrus: lotta baby dick in the intro scene
Shadow Wolf based in Japan here. Loved hearing all the mispronounced words. Happy to host ABZ anytime for a private show~
Great user name
Love Mishima, it's insane that it was even made and it's truly a masterpiece. It's also really funny that Schrader's follow up to it is essentially a Lifetime Movie about rock and roll starring Michael J Fox and Joan Jett.
Schrader's "Mishima" is very striking, but the contrast between old videos of Mishima and the actor playing him is disappointing: the actual person, utterly crazy and self-destructive as he turned out to be, was vivid and individual, and the performance is duller.
Loved rewatching this for the first time in a decade, really made me want to check out some 60s/70s Ken Takakura movies where he doesn't play a sidekick for visiting foreigners.
Good for gwildor that bodycam tech wasn't what it is today.
Paul Schrader would be a great guest