Last year, Takashi Miike (Audition, Visitor Q) returned to the horrific with metatextual, somber ghost story Over Your Dead Body (coming to DVD and Blu soon from Scream Factory). This year, he blends the yakuza film with vampires for whats likely a uniquely Miike result. See a new, pop-colored madhouse teaser for Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, below.
In the film, which features The Raid stars Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian, Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but has never died. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treats him like an idiot, Akira cant even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. Akira becomes disappointed in the yakuza world, because its not like what he say in the movies. Especially, in terms of loyalty and charity depicted of the yakuza. An assassin is then sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire.
We’ve got the return of the realest grunt, as well as a cycling frog getting launched into the sky and whatever the hell is going on here… [The Film Stage]
