Hot as Hell: The Deadbeat March

Hong Kong director Johnny To personally gave Okuda Yosuke a prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival for his energetic, low-budget gangster comedy Hot as Hell: The Deadbeat March. Johnny To then took an interest in this young film maker (born in 1986), who played the role of a heavyweight gangster in his own film.
The Deadbeat March is the third part of Okuda’s Hot as Hell trilogy and is about two hysterical drug dealers, Tetsuo and Sabura, who surreptitiously adulterate cocaine with protein. They are part of the not-very-well-organised crime scene, are caught by undercover cops, meet a childhood sweetheart and finally end up in a literal bloodbath.
The film, dedicated to Tarantino, gives the verbal and visual jokes a tragic undertone. The desolate locations reveal a Japan that is not often shown. Okuda, who graduated from the Kawaguchi Art School in 2007, is one of the few independent filmmakers in Japan.

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