03/11/2005 Gendai yakuza: hito-kiri yota or Street Mobster (1972) is a brother movie to Hideo Gosha's Boryoku-Gai, Violent Streets. Both treat the end of the violent days, when the yakuza focused on doing business without fighting. Both feature Noboru Ando and will do little to improve your belief in healthy man-woman relations, but more than Gosha's movie, Kinji Fukasuku's has an American flavor to it.
Street punks whirl around as musical dancers and gather around the fire like any cowboy after a day's work.
Bunta Sugawara -the uncontrollable punk- has severval acting modes. He explodes well, underacts as good and has this strange stereotypical poses in between. Ando is again impressive. And director Fukasuku is a poet who knows how to compose an image and to tell a story.
Entertaining soul food.
