Graveyard of Honor

2002 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Thriller

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 75% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 2484 2.5K

yakuza remake

Plot summary

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

Director

Takashi Miike Photo
Takashi Miike

Top cast

Takashi Miike Photo
Takashi Miike as Restaurant gunman
Rikiya Yasuoka Photo
Rikiya Yasuoka as Aoyama
Shun Sugata Photo
Shun Sugata as Toshi Nishizaki
Shinji Yamashita Photo
Shinji Yamashita as Masaru Narimura
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.17 GB
1280*682
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 1
2.18 GB
1920*1024
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles jp  
23.976 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 9

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Beard_Of_Serpico 8 / 10

Total insanity.

Gorô Kishitani plays Rikuo Ishimatsu a mid level Yakuza heavy in Takashi Miike's (sort of) remake of the classic 1970's movie.It's a remake of an older movie but apart from a few similar scenes and some other call backs it's mostly it's own original thing.It's a Miike movie through and through with everything you would expect - Extreme violence with buckets of blood, offbeat characters, dark humour and a cool mean streak throughout.This is a pretty insane movie which features one of the most repugnant main characters in any movie ever.Ishimatsu is a scumbag and the movie doesn't try to make you relate to him or make him sympathetic, you are just there to witness his horrific actions.If you like Miike's other movies then this is a no brainer for fans and it's not exactly a laugh riot but it's intense as hell, stylish and disturbing.If that's you're thing then check it out.
Reviewed by LooyCyphr 7 / 10

Allegory on "Japan's imperfection"

If Japan is "perfect", how does "imperfection" look like? The protagonist in this movie embodies exactly that. Which takes away a lot of the "Scarface"-like thriller elements. There is a story about a guy stepping up in a mafia environment, but his stoic anti-will, the fact he hurts EVERYone - helpers, supporters, lovers and foes - is meant to be allegorically political.It's stated somewhere and in fact, there's some few scenes that appear very illogical. Not so, if you watch the movies "the right way".Movie is calm, depressing, melancholic, bloody painful, sometimes crazy (in one scene he shoots at everyone: police, bypassers etc., then going "SORRY, OUTTA AMMO!" and delivers himself).Good, disturbing, mature Miike-movie. Not as cartoonish as most of his films.
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