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Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
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Rikuo Ishimatsu es un friegaplatos huraño y sin amigos. Un buen día, unos Yakuza entran a sangre y fuego en el restaurante donde trabaja para acabar con la vida de un capo mafioso rival. La brutal e inesperada intervención de Rikuo salva la vida del jefe Yakuza, que le jura eterno agradecimiento y hace que suba posiciones en el escalafón criminal de Tokio. Su falta de escrúpulos y su sed de sangre le harán pronto famoso y temido tanto entre sus rivales como entre sus compañeros, que jamás osan darle la espalda. Con su instinto de depredador sembrará las calles de la ciudad con los cadáveres de aquellos que se crucen en su camino...
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Ambitious yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards growing jealousy of Chuji.
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After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.
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A Takashi Miike film that is, to a degree, autobiographical-- Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
