Cinema of Power: We love the Bad Guys
✅ Love Being Bad: The Great Joy of Gangster And Mafia Films✅
What kinds of films do you like?
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✅ENJOY and Eat More PopCorn
Fighting for our attention are different genres of films!
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✅ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I taught a class on Samurai Cinema for years at a university, and students loved watched how this Japanese genre, changed world cinema, from gangster films to science fiction like Star Wars.
✅The Joy of Gangster Cinema
✅Yakuza Eiga, a Japanese Genre about Evil
Ichi the Killer (2001) by Takashi Miike, one of the master directors of modern Japanese cinema.
Kurosawa’s Yojimbo (1961) Samurai meets Yakuza, one of the best of the best.
✅Fight Fire with Fire: The Power of Mafia Films
Mafia films usually have a theme of brotherhood, for if you betray this family you will pay.
✅“Last Man Standing” (1996), Japanese cinema!
A remake of Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, this film remains an amazing humorous revision of the original classic!
✅“Road to Perdition” (2002)
Max Allan Collins based on the Japanese Lone Wolf and Cub Samurai.
Tomisaburo Wakayama, brother of Shintarô Katsu, Zaitoichi, a classic.
✅ “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” (1999)
A postmodern Gangsta Samurai feast, for this is one of my favorite remakes.
✅Chinese Triad as Gangsters
✅A Better Tomorrow (1986) and Killers (1989)
Directed by John Woo, the grand master!
✅One Armed Swordsman (1967), Wuxia Pian
John Woo, apprentice under Chang Cheh!
✅Infernal Affairs (2002)
Remade as Departed (2006) by Martin Scorsese
✅House of the Flying Dagger (2004)
Wuxia film, Influenced by Infernal Affairs (2002), Triad Gangster Film
✅Thank you for reading this. . .
