Tale of a Scarface

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Tired underworld

Tale of a scarface is the kind of movie with no major drawbacks but which does not contain anything memorable either. Character development is well made. The construction of the screenplay is traditional but well done. Except that the originality seems like a notion completely absent from the scenaristic treatment of a pitch seen thousand times in a yakuza eiga. The yakuza just going out of prison and realizing that everything changed in the underworld, the young ambitious gangster taken under its protection by one older gangster, yakuzas looking for easy money and not caring for the code of honor, the young yakuza seeking achievement in the clan to make waves, the women as impotent spectators of gangwar, the old yakuza tired of everything... In short things treated thousand times and not only by Japanese cinema. It is shot either in a academic way or using visual stereotypes (bad seventies zooms). The intimate passages of the film look like a telefilm. The classic score is used in a way either ordinary (intimate passages) or out of matter (the track race for example). For a movie which does not move and takes off a little only at the end. One more yakuza eiga...