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Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot
1996 ‘勝手にしやがれ！！黄金計画’ Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
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네 멋대로 해라: 황금계획, 为所欲为：黄金计划
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16 Feb 1996
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Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot is the halfway point in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's six-film undertaking, and the series is only picking up speed and getting better. The film starts with our lovable, unlucky leads, Yuji and Kosaku, unintentionally causing the death of an old man, Mr. Hatano, who they were supposed to bring to a couple of questionable guys. The facility Mr. Hatano was living at then wants to get rid of his belongings, and Yuji and Kosaku take ownership of them; specifically, they take his station wagon. The car has a whole host of issues, and before long, the old man's granddaughter, Ritsuko, shows up to take it as she believes it to be her car to claim,…
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I love that this has pretty much the plot of a Zatoichi movie. Our slack criminals kee going nowhere fast and are getting anxious about it than a delightful treasure hunt comedy breaks. These are really good hangout movies.
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“Everyone else changes, but we stay the same!” After their failed dreams of flight in their previous outing, good-natured fixers Kosaku and Yuji are stuck in a bit of a rut; the clients and their collections of problems keep on changing, but the little reward they get for all their efforts remains the same. “Got to do something,” Yuji sighs in the opening scene’s fit of ennui. “Like get married, get a job, and live in an apartment?” “No!” Better, after all, the nothing new of their little ramshackle life than other ruts that might be more comfortable but probably more deadening. “I’m going to get drunk and forget all this!” The lure of a dead man’s buried treasure in…
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"Marie Kondo: The Early Years"
Probably the best one so far, certainly more straightforwardly comic than the first two films. It's clear that everyone involved is already comfortable with the format, and there's an air of relaxed confidence that's difficult to resist. Horror and humour, even silly humour, are just different manifestations of unease for Kurosawa, so he handles them the same way, obliquely, from a distance. Sho Aikawa is a fashion icon.
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The Loot is Kurosawa's third entry in the Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself series, a cute TV-born film series sporting Sho Aikawa as a spirited detective. While these films are hardly representative of Kurosawa's oeuvre, they are a lot more fun than they have any right to be, and The Loot is probably my favorite of the bunch. Getting your hands on them may be tricky though.
Yuji and his partner take on an assignment to locate an old man. When they finally find him he runs away from them. It'll be the last thing he ever does because he gets a heart attack and drops dead. Yuji doesn't get paid, but he does inherit the man's possessions. Among them…
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Quite a bit slower than the previous 2, but the last 20 minutes are so special. Reminiscent of the more joyful moments from Eyes of the Spider (to which any comparison is the HIGHEST praise from me.) AND Dr. Shinigami from Kamen Rider '71 makes an appearance?!?
Sidenote: I need a poster of that cover art.
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This time, Yuji and Kosaku find themselves at the center of a Buddhist parable about the virtue of renouncing your worldly possessions. They're not the brightest bulbs, of course, so what it takes for that lesson to sink in are some shenanigans involving a treasure map, a shit car, and getting their TV stolen. Still three more movies to go, though, so maybe these buddy bodhisattvas will reach enlightenment yet.
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Simply better than the first two movies, that's all that needs to be said. I had previously made an assumption that Kurosawa wasn't very good at comedy, but I have to take that back, because this movie is genuinely funny several times. It also has such a contagious energy that it's very hard not to enjoy.
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Fuck it dude, lets just chill at the hot springs.
Reminded me a lot of Charisma with that forestry 3rd act and the mix of dark and lighthearted humor. My fav so far in the series.
