Crows Zero (Kurôzu Zero)

Times Watched: 1
Watched With: Mr Rider @ GV VivoCity (22/03)
Snacks: Picnic Chocettes & Iced Lemon Tea

checko-mato. oh wait. this isn't death note...

the Suzuran High School for Boys is NOT your ordinary school.
this is a school where you are not judged by your grades but your fists.
and everyone's aim is to rule the school byt fighting to the top.

Genji Takaya (Shun Oguri) is the newcomer who has plenty of spunk and the ambition to take down the current top dog Tamao Serizawa (Takayuki Yamada).
and to do so he enlists the help of old boy Yakuza misfit Ken Katagiri (Kyosuke Yabe) to guide him on the path to glory at the school.

and so from there you have a bunch of guys kicking the shit out of each other in a very scheduled and calculated order.
(they even challenge according to school seniority)

the cinematography is spectacular (what else do you expect from Takashi Miike?) and the fighting is pretty exciting.
but this movie is more of a comedy than anything else.
some parts (like Serizawa's intro on the motorcycle) that are bloody funny.

and this is based on a popular Japanese manga comic.
so you can expect some sequels i reckon.
but the best way for me to describe it is just a movie for girls who drool over good-looking jap guys to go drool over them a little more.


fighting's good but overall i just felt like buying some Gatsby products.

okay to watch if you really under the bo-pian act.

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