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Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire

2005 · 118 min

A slow-burning, tense crime drama that immerses you in a gritty underworld of loyalty and suspicion.

Directed by: Hajime Hashimoto
Genres: Drama, Crime
Starring: Ai Maeda, Naoya Makoto, Yutaka Matsushige

Overview: Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly corroding the clan's cohesion. Ginji, it turns out, was mired in debt. After Ginji borrowed a small fortune to build a luxury resort, his bank went belly up and stopped financing the loan. Frantic for funds, he decided as a last resort to rat out his boss who had skimmed five-billion yen from the gang. Soon everyone assumes that Idei did the hit. Convinced that Idei is being framed, Tamaki sets out to find the real killer.

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Directed by: Hajime Hashimoto
Genres: Drama, Crime
Starring: Ai Maeda, Naoya Makoto, Yutaka Matsushige

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: betrayal
crime
loyalty
power
greed
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	4
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama, crime
Directed by: Hajime Hashimoto
Written by: Kōji Takada
Starring: Ai Maeda, Naoya Makoto, Yutaka Matsushige, Misaki Moritsuki, Naomasa Musaka, Masataka Naruse, Minoru Ohki, Hideo Sakaki
Runtime: 118 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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