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Cast
- Hayato IchiharaAkira Kageyama
- Riko NarumiKyoko
- Lily FrankyGenyo motherfucking Kamiura
- Reiko TakashimaSosuke Zenba
- Sho AoyagiYakuza bitchboy
- Yayan RuhianMad Dog
- Kiyohiko ShibukawaHideaki Aratetsu
- Mio YukiVampire High School Student
- Pierre TakiYukio Rakan
- DendenOld Yakuza
Recommendations
- 100
The Telegraph
The demented brilliance of Miike’s film lies in the director’s ability to craft ideas that are simultaneously sublime and ridiculous. - 91
The Playlist
It may be a hugely tacky, cartoony balloon pit of a film, but when every single element is dialled up to eleven and you can't go thirty seconds without another three-way face-off between OTT, OMG and WTF, it starts to achieve a maximalist artistry that almost feels avant-garde. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it. - 80
Screen Daily
Often laugh-out-loud funny, even (or rather especially) as the silliness escalates in the final half hour, this is a cult cineaste’s treat which rampages gleefully through a china shop of genre conventions. Only killjoys who demand narrative coherence will fail to respond. - 75
The A.V. Club
His latest, the deranged and frequently funny Yakuza Apocalypse, is in many ways a return to both his early years in the wilds of V-Cinema — Japan’s direct-to-video industry — and to the kind of midnight-movie fodder that first made his reputation abroad, albeit done on a much larger scale and with fewer quirks of style. - 70
Village Voice
If you can get on its wacko wavelength, it's a uniquely crazed, compelling midnight-movie whatsit. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Yakuza Apocalypse is Miike at the top of his game, breaking cinematic rules at every chance while crafting seriously subversive cinema that defangs both the real-world Yakuza, the Japanese government, and, heaven help us, Sanrio, too. Knitting, I tell you! Knitting! - 63
Slant Magazine
The film doesn't add up to much, but it's a diverting tour of Takashi Miike's anything-goes, splatter-paint sensibility. - 40
The Guardian
For all its berserk energy, you will need a very particular sense of humour not to lose patience with the prolific Takashi Miike’s latest.
