Plot: The plot follows an undercover cop infiltrating the Yakuza in order to weed out the top honchos. It's a classic story of a disillusioned police officer who finds himself struggling with his convictions when he is sent on an undercover mission, as he needs to build strong personal bonds with the criminals he spends time with. The more he learns of the plans developing around him, with different factions plotting against each other, the tougher the choices he faces to protect the people he cares for. At the s
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December 29, 2022
It's been quite a long time since I watched a Yakuza flick with a little extra, I'm not surprised Harada is the one to make it happen. He's the type of director who can take any genre and infuse it with a sprinkle of originality, without necessarily deviating from core genre clichés. Hell Dogs is a very typical Yakuza film (complex, littered with characters, honor codes, and backstabbing), but the presentation is just a tad slicker, the score a little more distinctive and the action has that extra dash of energy. The performances are solid too, and while the film is a tad long, it never lost my attention.