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Oguri Shun ( Azumi, RoboCon, Hana Yori Dango TV series) is mesmerizing in his role as Genji. Miike's young cast is superb and does an awesome job bringing Takahashi's exaggerated characters to life. Yet, Miike surprisingly also inserts some genuinely nice and moving moments involving the complicated relationships between the various characters. Make no mistake, Crows Zero is a guy's film and it is filled with testosterone pumped action and showy machismo almost to a comical level. Miike never fails to make visually interesting films and Crows Zero is no exception.
Miike's direction is wickedly entertaining in its outrageousness and eye-catching style.
There also seems to be elements reminiscent of Walter Hill's 1984 rock-n-roll fairy tale Streets of Fire, particularly with regards to the romance in between Genji and Aizawa. While Fudo Shugo's lively and energized script clearly draws inspiration from Takahashi's manga, it seems to also draw heavily from other similar high school delinquent manga adaptations like Be-Bop High School, Rokudenashi Blues and Sakigake! Otokojuku. Genji's ambitions bring him into conflict not only with former schoolmate Tatsukawa Tokio (Kiritani Kenta), who has become Serizawa's right hand man, but also endangers the life of beautiful hip-hop singer Aizawa Ruka (Kuroki Meisa) a childhood friend, who is love with the "bad boy" Genji. Genji's allies include the dim-witted yet fiercely loyal Makise Takashi (Takahashi Tsutomu) and the brutal and calculating Izaki Jun (Takaoka Sousuke). Together with Chuta, they begin to unite the other warring school factions in an effort to strike at Serizawa's class.
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One of the Yakuza thugs sent after Serizawa, Katagiri Ken (Yabe Kyosuke), himself a former dropout from Suzuran, takes Genji under his wing and offers to teach him how to become the new king of the school, an achievement that Genji hopes will eclipse his father's reputation and give him fame. New transfer student Genji Takaya (Oguri Shun) has just entered the school and begins to make a name for himself, first by beating up a group of Yakuza who had a run-in with Serizawa and then by beating a leading school warlord, Tamamura "Chuta" (Suzunosuke) to take over his class. Despite his baby-faced good looks and somewhat goofy personality, he is ruthlessly determined to keep his top position at whatever costs and beats down all challengers to his throne. The top "A" class comprises of allies of the current king of the school, Serizawa Tamao (Yamada Takayuki) who is called the "Hyaku Jyu Oh" (King of the Hundred Beasts) for his ferocity and strength in fights. Formal education is the least of the worries at the school as daily classes are almost non-existant and students spend most of the time either fighting with each other or allying themselves with the various factions that control the school. Suzuran's student body has the unique distinction of being the most violent, lawless and brutal.
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Based on Takahashi Hiroshi's gritty comic series Crows, which runs in "Monthly Shonen Champion" magazine, the movie follows the exploits of Takaya Genji, the son of a high ranking Yakuza ganglord, who has transferred into the notorious high school Suzuran. It was outrageously violent and portrayed high school life as a battlefield, where personal combat was a means to prove a teen's worth and masculinity.Įnter Miike Takashi's recent Crows Zero which almost plays like an updated version of Be-Bop High School albeit with his own unique flourishes and stylistic nuances. One of my favorite Japanese movie series of the 80s was Nasu Hiroyuki's absurdly violent Be-Bop High School, which was based on Kiyuchi Kazuhiro's popular manga series that ran in "Weekly Young Jump" from 1983. Yet surprisingly, amid the chaos Miike delievers a deep story which akins high school life to feudal warfare, where alliances are sought, deals made and friendships tested, all in the name of becoming top of the class. Miike's adaptation of Hiroshi Takahashi's wickedly violent teen high school comic is a visual onslaught of bloody mayhem, macho violence and brutual "mano a mano" combat. Shun Oguri, Kyosuke Yabe, Takayuki Yamada, Meisa Kuroki, Kenta Kiritani, Sousuke Takaoka, Yusuke Kamiji, Tsutomu Takahashi, Suzunosuke, Kaname Endo,Sunsuke Taido, Goro Kishitani Shogo Muto, based on the manga by Takahashi Hiroshi
A class photo for Takashi Miike's teen action drama Crows Zero.
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