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'Hell Dogs': Mayhem with a touch of noir

Masato Harada has been working as a director and scriptwriter for four decades. Since the 2000s, he has become known for densely plotted, dialogue-heavy films based on Japanese history (2015’s “ The Emperor in August ,” 2017’s “ Sekigahara ”) or set in contemporary Japan where professionals in high-tension jobs, ranging from media to law, match wits and wills ( 2008’s “ Climbers High ,” 2018’s “ Killing for the Prosecution ”).

But the film’s look — ranging from the stark, minimalistic gang offices to an abandoned deluxe spa where much of the fighting unfolds — reminds me of Ridley Scott’s 1989 film “Black Rain”: Both films inhabit highly stylized spaces that verge on dark-future sci-fi, though Scott’s smoky, exoticized Osaka has more of a “Blade Runner” vibe. In either case, the setting does not resemble that of a typical yakuza film, where low-level hoodlums chow down on convenience store food and run their scams out of hole-in-the-wall offices.

The complex plot centers on an ex-cop (Okada) who spent years plotting and exacting deadly revenge for the murder of the woman he loved. After honing his skills as a fighter and killer, he is recruited by the police to infiltrate a powerful gang, the Toshokai. Using the alias “Shogo Kanetaka,” he becomes a gang enforcer partnered with Hideki Murooka (Kentaro Sakaguchi), a boyish psycho killer who was raised in a crazed cult.

The pair end up working under a wily old sub-boss, Tsutomu Toki (Kazuki Kitamura), and his smart, sultry mistress Emiri (Mayu Matsuoka). Shogo’s ultimate target, however, is the winner of a bloody struggle over gang succession: the ruthless and dangerous Yoshitaka Toake (musician and actor Miyavi). Shogo’s superiors are after a sensitive file Yoshitaka possesses, but Shogo soon realizes that getting it will mean yet more piles of bodies — and his might very well be among them.

In Japanese action films of a previous era, a character like Yoshitaka, with his designer suits, ambiguous sexuality and taste for austere modern art, would have been unlikely to rise to the top of the gang hierarchy. In the hyper-cool fantasy world of “Hell Dogs,” however, he fits right in. Also, the main female characters, including Emiri and a mysterious masseuse named Noriko (Shinobu Otake), have as much agency as any of the men, if not as much obvious clout.

With Okada serving as an uncredited action choreographer, the film delivers mayhem with punch and panache at a blistering pace, though the two main protagonists sometimes escape certain death with what seems to be nothing but willpower. Despite being “Hell Dogs,” the nickname for their gang security unit, they have nine lives.

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Hell Dogs (2022) Review

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Director: Masato Harada Cast: Junichi Okada, Kentaro Sakaguchi, Mayu Matsuoka, Miyavi, Kazuki Kitamura, Shinobu Otake, Satoshi Kanada, Mai Kiryu, Arisa Nakajima, Kyoko Running Time: 138 min.

By Henry McKeand

What happened to the good old-fashioned Yakuza flick?   Japanese underworld tales were a dime a dozen pre-Y2K, but they’ve started to fade into the background along with gangster films the world over. Maybe meat-and-potatoes crime stories just don’t stand a chance in cineplexes packed with superhero epics and would-be franchise starters that cost more than $200 million to make.  

Yakuza characters themselves certainly haven’t faded in popularity. They’ve popped up in some of the biggest AAA releases of the past five years ( Deadpool 2 , Bullet Train , and John Wick 4 ) as well as countless mid-budget actioners, but genuine, no-frills movies solely about the Yakuza are hard to come by. Kitano and Miike have continued to explore their criminal sides, and Kazuya Shiraishi’s Wolves films were refreshing throwbacks, but these are exceptions to the rule. Even 2021’s Yakuza-centric A Family functioned more as a social issue melodrama than a real thriller.  

This is why last year’s Hell Dogs seemed so exciting. Directed by Masato Harada ( Kamikaze Taxi and Bounce Ko Gals ) and based on a manga by Akio Fukamachi, it’s the kind of unpretentious potboiler that we don’t get much of anymore. Rather than devolving into pastiche or commenting on its subject matter, it serves up a heaping platter of bloody pulp that delivers on the promise of its ominous tagline: “Pure. Violence.”

Harada’s approach to the genre may be straightforward, but the narrative is anything but. Here’s the short version of its labyrinthine setup: Goro (Junichi Okada) was a rookie cop whose life was upended when vicious robbers murdered a young woman he was starting to fall in love with. After enacting vengeance upon the men, he is recruited by a calculating police chief (Yoshi Sakô) who persuades him to go undercover in the Toshokai crime syndicate headed by the mysterious Toake (MIYAVI). To do so, Goro changes his name to “Tak” and befriends a volatile up-and-comer named Muro (Kentaro Sakaguchi).

This is only scratching the surface of what turns out to be a needlessly complicated plot. Opening scenes unload a huge amount of backstory, as characters throw out so many names and motivations that it’s easy to lose track. The fascinating relationship between Tak and Muro is ostensibly the emotional core, but this main thread is often sidelined in order to make room for scattershot detours. Love triangles and young romances and inner-family feuds and murderous cult backstories all add up to…well, not as much as you’d think.  

It probably doesn’t help that Tak himself is mostly a cipher. The exact goals of his mission are not entirely clear. Despite being undercover, he witnesses killing and kills people himself constantly. Ever stranger, his murders don’t seem to have much of an effect on him. In this way, Hell Dogs separates itself from obvious forebearers like Infernal Affairs and New World . Here, there are no suspenseful pat-downs or wiretapped meetings or conversations about not knowing the difference between cop and criminal anymore. In Harada’s script, this difference is essentially non-existent. Tak’s chief is fine with his frequent murders, and no one seems to be concerned about actually arresting anyone.  

That’s not necessarily a criticism. Nope: Hell Dogs is pure hardboiled ennui, more focused on stylish tough guy melancholy than any realistic police work. Harada has a knack at making killers and scumbags almost instantly iconic, and Junichi Okada as Tak is instrumental in selling this sense of gangster cool. Okada, who also explored the Yakuza world in the recent Fable romps, has the prickly swagger and hangdog weariness of greats like Lee Marvin or Joe Shishido. He uses his short stature to create a larger-than-life character who’s paradoxically most comfortable blending into the background.  

Playing off of him is Sakaguchi’s unstable Muro. There’s a quiet closeness between the two men that is never fully explored, but it’s not a stretch to say that there’s a homoerotic undercurrent to their scenes together. In fact, an unexpected sensuality infects many scenes that may have otherwise been sterile. These moments of heightened passion combined with the breakdown of traditional police/outlaw morality make this a surprisingly effective Heroic Bloodshed story by the time the bullets really start flying in the final act.

And fly, they do. It’s not a straight up action movie, per se, but the violence is kinetic and frequent. There’s the prerequisite John Wick -esque shootout in the second half (the CGI blood is actually pretty good!), but the combat is at its best when characters are locked into down-and-dirty street fights that still leave room for balletic, emotional choreography.  

But more than anything, this is a vessel for what only gangster films can provide: feudal murderers walking around in nice suits and threatening each other. It may sound superficial, but crime diehards know just how thrilling and nuanced this tried-and-true formula can be. Yes, the script could have been retooled to focus on the aching chemistry of the central characters instead of the jumbled mafia specifics, but Hell Dogs transcends its flaws and provides a bona fide old-school shot of adrenaline.

Henry McKeand’s Rating: 7.5/10

2 Responses to Hell Dogs (2022) Review

Wow, so there’s no moral dilemma?

I’m reminded of Deep Cover where Laurence Fishburne goes undercover as a drug dealer, commits many crimes to maintain his cover and hates himself for it only to find out it was all for nothing.

How does Junichi Okada deal with it all? Is he just resigned to everything around him? Maybe he does hate it and he’s not letting it show?

Yeah not really a moral dilemma. His boss wants him to kill, and Okada doesn’t seem that worried about anything (even letting a pretty rough torture scene play out in front of him). He seems to identify with the gangsters.

He’s described as being a medieval man. He’s a feudal soldier looking for some kind of honor, but it definitely doesn’t line up with modern ideas about morality.

Fishburne in Deep Cover is a far more easy-to-understand character, I’d say. Okada is kind of detached and broken. Writing about it makes it less interesting that it plays on screen. Without spoiling anything, it feels like it operates in the same moral world that a second New World would have. The same focus (or lack of focus) on grey morality.

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2022 ‘ヘルドッグス 地獄の犬たち’ Directed by Masato Harada

Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.

Junichi Okada Kentaro Sakaguchi Mayu Matsuoka Kazuki Kitamura Shinobu Otake MIYAVI Satoshi Kanada Mitsuo Yoshihara Mai Kiryu Arisa Nakajima Yasumasa Oba Ukon Onoe Miou Tanaka Jun Murakami Yoshi Sakou Mariko Akama Ayaka Koyanagi Takashi Shigematsu Masakazu Saiga Ryohei Abe Shinya Matsuda Hiroki Ôkawa Taro Kaneko Kazunari Murakami Reiko Mori Kana Nakagawa Takeshi Caesar Arisa Sasaki Shusaku Kamikawa Show All… Kenta Sugibayashi Rena Mashita Seiha Naito Kenji Yabe Hono Miyabe Akimoto Tsubasa Tarō Nakatani Mio Tanaka

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Masato Harada

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Hiroyasu Nagata

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Akio Fukamachi

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Takahide Shibanushi

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Junichi Okada

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Reiko Tsuchiya

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Story: Shogo Kanetaka (Junichi Okada) used to be a policeman, but after a woman and three girls got killed during a robbery, he swears to take revenge. He was meant to go on a date with one of the girls, and maybe he could have prevented the murders. Ten years go by before the man, who now just calls himself Tak, has completed his revenge campaign. Then he is caught by a special unit of the police that offers him a deal. He is supposed to infiltrate the yakuza as an undercover cop and work himself up the chain of command as far as possible, so that he could then destroy the organization from within at the right moment. Muro (Kentaro Sakaguchi) seems to be the best way for him to become part of the yakuza, and a year later, Tak has actually managed to earn the trust of his boss Toki (Kazuki Kitamura), who then assigns Tak and Muro to be bodyguards for his superior Toake (Miyavi). Tak has now reached the top of the organization, but because of the internal power struggle between the families Tak's job is not that easy. His contact at the police provides him with important intel and shows him the way, but in the meantime, Tak has started to feel comfortable in the organization and even built a serious friendship with Muro. Will he continue to work as an undercover cop and bust the yakuza from the inside or has he finally found his place in the world?

Review: When you finally manage to find your bearings within the general framework of the story, "Hell Dogs" bombards you with thousands of names and relationships within the yakuza and their various families, so much so that you start to wonder whether they seriously expect you to take in all that information in such a short time and at this enormous pace. At the beginning, you definitely need to show some good will towards this action thriller, but it's worth it - for the most part. Fortunately, the fast pace never allows you to get bored, provided you don't just switch off your brain because things go too fast. But at least we have Tak who keeps us grounded in the story as the focus mainly stays on him. He somehow manages to hold the various subplots and disputes within the yakuza together, so that we are actually able to keep track of all the events. In addition, we also get some impressive action scenes.

In "Hell Dogs" we find ourselves in some kind of parallel world in which undercover cops butcher their way through the yakuza without having to fear any punishment. However, Tak's moral compass is a fascinating aspect, as we learn a lot about him that makes him look like one of the good guys. At the same time, he has already given up on himself, so much so that he sees himself as a "Mad Dog". The big question is whether he is still a cop or he has already immersed himself too much into the world of the yakuza or maybe just always fit in there, in the first place. Which is not necessarily a new topic in movies about organized crime and undercover cops but lead actor Junichi Okada ( "The Fable" ) manages to convey the needed charisma and is therefore able to carry the movie. I for one, was quite surprised by that, because I didn't think he would be able to pull it off. But his willingness to physically devote himself to a movie is something you should already have noticed in other works with him. The fights and gunfights demand a lot from him, but he masters his role with flying colors.

Anyway, you have to admit, that the action in "Hell Dogs" is pretty well done, and thanks to some unusual locations, those scenes are also quite memorable. For example, there is the warehouse with its winding corridors, in which a shootout with shotguns takes place, or there is a female assassin causing a surprising action sequence. Above all, it is quite rare in today's action flicks that somebody actually makes an effort to choreograph gunfights with attention to detail. Director Masato Harada ( "Killing for the Prosecution" ) deserves praise for paying attention to these details, despite the fact that the events come thick and fast, and also for creating a nice dynamic through his continuous camera work, without making the viewer dizzy. "Hell Dogs" may seem messy in some respects, the finale being good proof of that, but the movie has the charm of old HK classics of the genre, and a well-known story gets reissued in a pleasantly complex, even though sometimes too tangled, way. Fans of action thrillers can't do anything wrong here.

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(director/writer: Masato Harada; screenwriter: based on a novel by Akio Fukamachi; cinematographer: Takahide Shibanushi; cast: Junichi Okada (Shogo Kanetaka/Goro Idezutsi), Kentaro Sakaguchi (Hideki Murooka), Mayu Matsuoka (Emiri Kisa), Miyavi (Yoshitaka Toake), Shinobu Otake (Noriko), Yoshi Sakô (Masaru Anai), Kazuki Kitamura (Tsutomu Toki); Runtime: 137; MPAA Rating: NR; producers: Mariko Seto, Hiroyasu Nagata, Kazuto Amano, Daiki Koide, Toshiya Nomura; Netflix; 2022-Japan-in Japanese with English subtitles)

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Reviewed by Dennis SchwartzA boring, over complicated with too many characters, too violent and too talky of an action pic based on a 2017 novel by Akio Fukamachi. It’s directed and scripted by veteran Japanese  filmmaker Masato Harada (“Inugami”/”Chronicle of My Mother”), and stars Junichi Okada–Japan’s aging but still top action star. I should also add this was too bloody for me. As a result of his loved one’s murder, police officer Goro Idezutsi (Junichi Okada) is in a state of shock.  The cop can only think about getting revenge, and thereby quits the force and spends time training in the martial arts and kills at random various yakuza members. The head of the police department’s undercover unit (Yoshi Sakô) offers the now seedy looking killing machine ex-cop a chance to get even with the yakuza by infiltrating the gang to take them down. He agrees and takes the name Shogo ‘Tak’ Kanetaka. He joins the powerful Toshokai gang, led by Kazuki Kitamura (Tsutomu Toki), and vows to take him and his yakuza gang down. To get in the gang, he is tested often for his loyalty. After Tak picks a fight with the boyish psychopath killer yakuza enforcer, Hideki Murooka (Kentaro Sakaguchi), nicknamed Mad Dog, they bond and work together as enforcers. Murooka is the son of a death-row convict, who can’t control his anger. The title is derived from the “Hell Dogs,” which is the yakuza gang’s nickname for their gang security unit.

REVIEWED ON 12/25/2022  GRADE: C

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• A traumatized former officer hell-bent on revenge receives an order to go undercover within the Yakuza by befriending their most frenetic member.
• Shogo Kanetaka is a police officer, who suffers from trauma when his loved one was murdered. Since that horrific time, Shogo has only thought about revenge. He then receives an order to go undercover as a yakuza member. The police instructs Shogo to pick a fight with yakuza member Hideki Murooka as a stepping stone to gain entrance into the organization. The police have data that shows Shogo is matched with Hideki 98%. Meanwhile, Hideki is the son of a death-row convict. He has a physical condition, where is he always hungry and constantly eating. Also, neither her nor the yakuza can control his emotions.

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