a lot have be say about shinjuku triad society a the first true miike film and i think this sort of description might have be a cliché . but and like all clichés and it be base on the truth . all the miike trademark be here and the violence and the black humour and the homosexuality and the taboo testing and the difficult to like central character . shinjuku be however and one of miike most perfectly form film . he say in an interview that if he make it again it would be different and but not necessarily well . i think what he mean be that the film possess a truly captivate energy and raw edge which seem so fresh that although he might be able to capture a more visually or technically complex movie he could not replicate or good the purity of this film . a you might expect and the violence be utterly visceral and gush blood and gritty beating be supplement by a fantastic scene in which a woman have a chair smash over her face . ( only a miike film could let you get away with a sentence like that . ) the film have a fantastic pace and unlike dead or alive which begin and end strongly and dip in the middle . dead or alive also deal with similar issue and miike be clearly concern about the relation between the japanese and chinese in the postwar period and this emotive subject be handle well here and the central character really come to life when you begin to understand his past . i can not sing shinjuku praise enough . i do not want to give away too much . this be miike before he begin to use cgi to animate his film and be almost reminiscent of something like kitano sonatine . the central character be superbly realize and the final twist guarantee that as soon a the film have finish you will be pop it back on again to work it all out .