Mochizuki Rokuro retro
Overview of films
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Pinocchio – A Man Without Nationality
Man sneaks into Japan disguised as a Buddhist monk to finish a lucrative industrial spying job. Everyone is after him: the Mafia, hysterical Taiwan
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Mobster’s Confessions
Film about minor gangsters with megalomania is reminiscent of Godard with its eccentric mixture of comedy, drama, bizarre sex and an obsessive inte
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Debeso
Picaresque road-movie set in the early sixties in rural Japan, a chronicle of a travelling theatre company that wants to break its ties with the Ya
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Onibi: the Fire Within
Mochizuki’s second co-operative venture with the writer Yamanouchi may well be the most intense moving (anti) Yakuza film ever made.
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The Outer Way
Very bizarre and ambiguous ‘moral drama’ may be Mochizuki’s best film so far. the cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superi
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Another Lonely Hitman
Mood film marks co-operation between the director with the ex-Yakuza-lawyer Yamanouchi Yukio and the ex-punk-rock star Ishibashi Ryo as hitman in t
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Skinless Night
Kayama (33) maintains his family and his staff as small-scale porn video-maker. Mochizuki’s semi-autobiographical feature debut looks at the
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The Wicked Reporter – The One That Got Away
Part III of the ‘mischievous reporter’ is a fast, raw, even ‘philosophical’ film full of sex, violence and gambling in low-
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A Yakuza in Love
Playful film bordering on comic turns radically in mood at the end. Tazaka has been healed of his heroin addiction, but his release drives him back