🍿The Kangaroo Jack of yakuza films. The title and poster promise something very different than what the film actually delivers. But once I reset my expectations I found a beautifully shot movie. There are some long tracking shots in here that are quietly insane. They don’t draw a lot of attention to themselves. But once I noticed them happening I was super impressed.
About 70 minutes in the film starts to get kinda wacky and I thought, “Ok, from here on out this is gonna be wild.” But no. It’s got about 10 minutes of wackiness and then it returns to its quiet, soft-grain, reflective self. This is more A Scene at the Sea than it is Violent Cop.
I watched the theatrical release which runs just under 2 hours. There’s a 20-minute longer release on the Arrow Blu Ray. I haven’t found a good comparison between the two, but it sounds like the longer version adds more incident and conversation. It’s not like there’s an extra 20 minutes of machine gun battles or anything.