Projeto Première Acessível: Extensão, Ensino e Pesquisa em Legendagem

Original title: 極道黒社会
Year: 1997
Director: Takashi Miike
Country of origin: Japan

Yûji is a former yakuza now living in exile in Taipei, where he ekes out a living performing hits for a local crime boss. A coldly efficient killer, he has just one superstition, that it is bad luck to go out in the rain. The scenes in Taipei back streets and market areas, often shot with a hand-held camera in unhurried takes, really capture the feel of a particularly unglamorous corner of this metropolitan city, one whose frequent downpours play like expressionist reflections of Yûji’s melancholia, enhanced by his rainfall superstition exaggerated by a casual drug habit and his failure to connect with a city that bears only a surface resemblance to the Tokyo of his past. This isn’t his home, this isn’t his language and these aren’t his people, what makes them easier to kill.

Source: adapted from Cine Outsider.