Lots of mainstream/yakuza cliches and cheesy background music. Clumsy narrative exposition. Some of the actors are OK, but the overall awfulness of the movie is too great for that to be of any help. Not recommended.
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7 Reviews
The Challenge
(1982)
Unbelievably bad
11 February 2021
While not expecting much from this movie and mainly watching it to see the Kyoto International Conference Center, it was in fact a whole lot worse than expected: An embarrassing 80s' American fantasy version of Japan full of the worst cliches and stereotypes in the manner of Karate Kid, etc. Two stars for the architectural setting though.
Inside the Chinese Closet
(2015)
Brief comment
13 July 2020
While I found it worth the time watching this documentary, I agree with Gordon-11's criticism. An additional, if minor, shortcoming is the choice of country music as background music in a documentary with this theme and setting.
Mr. Long
(2017)
Patchwork of cliches
7 June 2020
This movie is nothing but a long string of cliches, gangster movie cliches, feel-good movie cliches, etc. This may sound interesting, but as the movie isn't doing anything with these cliches other than - most likely unintentionally - being made up of them, it's not.
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