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The Kids Are All Grown Up In The First Full Trailer For Japanese Crime Sequel, GONIN SAGA

Writer and director Ishii Takashi has plenty of fan fervor to go on with the forthcoming crime opus, Gonin Saga. The new film is pegged with a line-up of young actors among its mostly new and a few returning cast members that will surely help add another epic layer of drama and intensity to build off of its acclaimed predecessor for fans well entrenched into the genre. SYNOPSIS: The year is 1995. Japan’s economic bubble has collapsed. No Bandai (Koichi Sato), once a guitarist in a rock band and now a disco owner, is under huge pressure to pay off his colossal debt to the Ogoshi-gumi gang, an affiliate of the police-designated organized crime syndicate Goseikai. In desperation, he gathers five other men on the verge of oblivion to carry out a heist of the Ogoshi-gumi’s vault, and they succeed in robbing them of a massive sum of cash. However, […]

The New Teaser For GONIN SAGA Awakens A Two-Decade-Old Grudge!

Lee B. Golden III

Japan’s economic crisis in the mid-1990’s proved quite useful in setting up a working formula for writer and director Ishii Takashi’s 1995 crime thriller, Gonin, starring Sato Koichi and legendary actor Kitano Takeshi in a violent tale of one man’s consequential attempt to rob the Yakuza with the help of four desperate cohorts. The film led to an indirect sequel a year later, but gladly enough, fans who enjoyed the first can now get a taste of what’s to come with the brand new teaser for Gonin Saga, a generational sequel almost two vengeful decades in the making and clearly aimed at adding just a few more layers to the drama, action, suspense, intrigue and thrills. SYNOPSIS via Eigapedia: Yuto’s father was Shigeru Hisamatsu, a young lieutenant with the Gosei-kai affiliated Ogoshi gang. Although Hisamatsu is a peaceful young man who’s grown up to have a very different life than […]