Great Fukasaku flick about a small time gangster trying to carve out his niche in the Yakuza world
1972’s Street Mobster was another Yakuza (gangster) flick by Kinji Fukasaku, perhaps the best purveyor of that genre. This was released a year before his classic Battles Without Honor and Humanity series and featured Bunta Sugawara as Isamu Okita. The two would work together in several further ventures.<br /><br />Isamu describes himself as a born loser. His birthday was the day Japan lost World War II. He never knew his father and his mother abandoned him to be a prostitute. That deeply scared him and he never forgave her. He was forced to live out on the street, and that led him to form his own small gang, which in turn led him into conflict with the main Yakuza clan in the city. Isamu was not one to be intimidated however. The story revolves around whether Isamu can carve out his own niche in the gangster world.<br /><br />Fukasaku was known for his realistic style in his Yakuza films and this was no exception. Traditionally gangsters had been portrayed as almost chivalrous figures with their own code that they lived by. Fukasaku showed that they were a bunch of criminals that raped, killed, stole, and extorted people, and that’s all here in Street Mobster.<br /><br />Not only that but Street Mobster is a reminder of how different Japanese and western society and culture is. You have to see the ending and analyze it to figure that out, no spoilers here.<br /><br />Overall, Street Mobster was another fantastic film by Fukasaku and showed how he was developing his style as a film maker and especially his production of Yakuza stories.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : In the tradition of Takeshi Kitano, Sergio Leone, and George Romero, Japanese action director Kinji Fukasaku (.