10/27/2008

Sex & Fury, Female Yakuza Tale, & PTU: Into the Perilous Night

Sex & Fury and Female Yakuza Tale are the last two pinky violence movies I plan on seeing for a while. There's just so much naked Japanese women I can take. I never, ever, though I would say that, but, yep, there is a limit. Sex & Fury actually has non-Asian characters in it, speaking their native languages, which is a nice bonus. And one of them is Christina Lindberg, of Thriller (or They Call Her One Eye), providing some naked non-Asian for those of you so inclined. Apparently, she's an English spy and they were trying to start a new Opium war in Japan (this was set in the early 1900s), and our hero Ochô gets involved. She's a pickpocket and a gambler (in one of the worst gambling scenes of all time, making five card draw look boring as hell) and needs to revenge her father's death. Basically, the most impressive thing in it was the naked fight scene after Ochô gets surprised in the bath. Impressive camera work not to show her pubic hair. Female Yakuza Tale picks up the story of Ochô a little later, when she gets involved with some yakuza gamblers and a plot to steal from some yakuza by replacing real drugs with fake drugs. Oh, did I mention that the opening credits to it were another naked fight scene with Ochô, although less skillfully edited to not show her pubes? And that the drugs were smuggled by a group of women in their vaginas, which had to be measured to see how much each could carry? And that most of the film had naked women in it? Including a huge naked fight scene at the end where all the women got naked for no apparent reason? Sex & Fury was actually sort of good, but Female Yakuza Tale just had a couple neat scenes (I mocked the naked credit sequence, but it was probably the best scene in the film) and many, many too many naked women.

PTU: Into the Perilous Night is Johnny To's story of what happens when a Hong Kong policeman's gun goes missing, and the PTU has to go find it in one night. It's not nearly as good as either Election or Exiled, let alone Breaking News, but it's not terrible. Apparently, after my pinky violence kick, I went on a Johnny To kick, so look for reviews of more of those coming up whenever I get time to watch them.

What's taking time is Rock Band 2 (OMG, you guys, totes awesome!), Little Big Planet (Sackboy is adorable!), and, um, Ms. Albright. I don't regret any of those.

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