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A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.
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"The film is not easy-to-digest popcorn entertainment, however. I was often on the edge of my seat, not only for the many hardcore action scenes staged for maximum blood-spattering and bone-crunching impact but also to figure out what was going on as characters rattled off reams of exposition. The setting does not resemble that of a typical yakuza film, where low-level hoodlums chow down on convenience store food and run their scams out of hole-in-the-wall offices. The film delivers mayhem with punch and panache at a blistering pace, though the two main protagonists sometimes escape certain d..."
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Both at the beginning and towards the end of the film, Shogo Kanetaka mentions a shrine to the goddess Diana where the priest is a killer. These are references to the shrine of the Golden Bough by Lake Nemi (just south of Rome). Supposedly there was a tree there one of whose boughs was golden. In Roman times, the shrine had a priest who assumed the position by killing the previous priest. The rationale for becoming the priest was that if the killer was a slave, he automatically was freed. This shrine was the initial inspiration for Sir James Frazer's massive book on mythology, "The Golden Bough". Note that "Golden Bough" appears as the name on one of the disused buildings in the film.
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A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.