A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

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Jun'ya Satô goes for a Fukasaku look and feel but doesn't pull it off. The film is more relentlessly grim and nihilistic while also being less coherent and it was much harder to tell what was going on with the constant swaying camera. Fukasaku used this camerawork in his films to add a sense of chaos and frantic action but there were still scenes filmed with calm camerawork to balance things out, here the camera never stops moving, and worse yet it seems to bounce around at random, and a couple of times failed to track the action. After a while, the film settles down, but it never really gets interesting. But what an opening pre-credit scene.