Det er en sjælden, ekstatisk fornøjelse at opleve en exploitation-filmskaber i storform.

...gradually building steam until it reaches a sustained pitch of cheerful insanity.

Eye-popping is one way to describe the prolific Japanese director’s 103rd film, a cheerfully pulpy Tokyo-set noir.

...combines a slapstick yakuza crime story with young romance. And I love it.

This hard-boiled piece of pulp fiction thaws into a hysterically violent absurdist comedy about the implosion of the Japanese underworld.

...far more impressive for how it collides its many characters than what it ever feels for them.

...everyone is at war here. The yakuza, the triads and the police go at it incessantly. Buckle up.