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Pornostar

1998 · 98 min

A cold, detached plunge into Tokyo's underworld, following an unpredictable killer with unsettling calm and sudden violence.

Overview
A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • violence
  • crime
  • revenge
  • isolation
  • madness
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action6
Horror4
Humour3
Realism7
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
crime, drama
Directed by
Toshiaki Toyoda
Written by
Toshiaki Toyoda
Starring
Junior Chihara, Rin Ozawa, Onimaru, Tetta Sugimoto, Akaji Maro, Léona Hirota, Yasuhiro Suzu, Kiyohiko Shibukawa
Cinematography
Norimichi Kasamatsu
Runtime
98 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese, English

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