japanese film maker talent and inventive genius takashi miike ( born 1960 ) have do incredible amount of film in his not even so long career so far . he have do make for video cheapies and big screen film that vary from unconventional and wonderful yakuza tale to insane comic book adaptation to mind blowing satire and and the great the theme in these film be and the more serious he be and use his idea and crazy creativity with restraint inside the otherwise serious world he create represent a bazooka torn from a guy back isn not any funny moment in dead or alive ( 1999 ) but have it important meaning for the theme tell so much about the character ( s ) and their value in the violent world miike depicts . his full metal yakuza aka full metal gokudo ( 1997 ) belong to the cheap and fastly make video film and it be easy to tell it be a very exploitation orient market that want simple and violent and graphic film without much more merit in them . full metal yakuza tell the robocop like ( 1987 and paul verhoeven ) story of a kill yakuza who get back to life a he be turn into a robot or human by one crazy scientist . he want to avenge the death of his friend as well a try to save his former love from the sadistic hand of the rival yakuza . ultra violence and gore ensues and all the potential that be use to wonderful perfection in fudoh ( 1996 ) and for example and be not there in this film . there be some nice japanese cinema element like the silence that tell more than word . the scene in the beach after a refusal to kill one yakuza bos be especially memorable and also close to the work of takeshi kitano . still the revenge theme be not handle here a it be in dead or alive or fudoh . in full metal yakuza and violence and act of revenge do not have any other meaning than to satisfy the gore audience and that be pretty sad for those who would like to see miike make more serious cinema all the time . in real world and violence and revenge be never a harmless and fun a in this film and miike for sure would have talent to make real film from the subject matter and a he do . also the end and show how desperate the character be for personal revenge and payback would be as wonderful a in those other film and but now it all be just mostly comical trash a miike definitely wasn not do this for anything else than money and to satisfy his huge need to work . it be hard to make any interpretation on single image and scene while everything before and after them fight against any serious analyzes . also the way how female be treat and depict be pretty unpleasant . i do not think there even one normal and calm and balanced female character here and all be just scream and sudden bitch that just need to be kill off by the more or less restrain men . the end involve a very nasty abusion scene of a female character and that be definitely too strong in a trashy film like this . but fortunately it end in a way that at least that female have someone who care for her and love her so at least female be not completely worthless in the film . miike have depict female in various way and at least film like fudoh and rainy dog show them equally significant and if not always strong and with the men . the film have also very few of the wonderful cinematic element and idea of miike like the kinetic storytelling and speed of city of lose soul aka the hazard city ( 2000 ) and the brilliant and surreal imagery of one of his masterpiece dead or alive and the claustrophobic and creepy and disturb brilliance of audition ( 1999 ) or the manic element in the soundtrack and editing and camerawork of koroshiya ichi aka ichi the killer ( 2001 ) . of course the budget in full metal yakuza be much small than in those mentioned film and but still the film doesn not offer any significant achievement of it director and other than the typical ultra violence and silliness . at least the always so great criticism towards the japanese censor who like to censor all the pubic hair off the film be there and again very delightfully so . another example of these opinion can be find in his film like visitor q ( 2001 ) and rainy dog ( 1997 ) . i be sure the japanese producer and censor have a lot of fun when they see what have takashi do now . the film be high on it gore level and so remind pretty much of ichi the killer and a film that be fill with cartoonish violence and blood plus sadism towards both female and male . full metal yakuza have plenty of swordfights ( . ) and other bloody carnage that give the maker an opportunity to throw in plenty of blood geysirs and splatter that satisfy some viewer but be not enough when the film be by talented director like miike . neither this or ichi the killer be to be take seriously ( hardly anyone take and at least full metal yakuza ) and and especially ichi and despite it flaw and negative side and tell something about the audience and that laugh look like a bunch of monkey and a sorry character a those inside the film and when someone be torture and brutally murder . ichi the killer have also some interesting element in the form of ichi himself and who be a traumatized boy with violent environment and society around him . this important theme be handle more carefully in rainy dog and also in fudoh . full metal yakuza be fill with desperate and weak human being that have only few civilized characteristic that make it able to call them men and not only beast and which they very often be inside in miike cinema . full metal yakuza be far from his great achievement and ambition and thus be not at all among his most noteworthy film and but that be understandable consider the film speedy low budget exploitation money maker status . 4/10 but only a a lover of japanese cinema . anyone with not interest in this great cinema and it element would not likely to be able to sit through the manic and insane ( and also the most uninspired ) example of it and like full metal yakuza .