Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, Rodriguez Gacha's much told tale of rags to riches ended in gore. Born in Pacho, in central Colombia, the future kingpin ran away from home at ten to embark on a life of street crime. Eventually he was tapped by the then reigning force in Colombia's underworld, the Emerald mob, to serve as bodyguard to its godfather, Gilberto Molina. Recently Rodriguez Gacha tried to elbow Molina out of the profession; that failed, and Rodriguez Gacha had his former employer killed last February...
JOHNNY HANDSOME. A rarity among crime thrillers, this film is as intelligent as it is well made. A supposedly reformed underworld character (Mickey Rourke) plots an elegant caper against some double-crossing crooks, under the eye of a savvy, cynical cop (Morgan Freeman...
That his opponents include the entire Japanese underworld, that he enjoys no support from Tokyo police and that he doesn't speak a word of Japanese do not deter Douglas. As he later explains, "Sometimes you gotta forget your head and grab your balls...
...dark vision of Tokyo, the exchange between Douglas and Wakayama comes out of nowhere. Perhaps we're supposed to sense the atom bomb beneath the frenetic violence of the rest of the movie. Perhaps Americans are to blame for the nasty pass things have come to in the Tokyo underworld. The point's not clear...
Mikhulskaya and Fillipova are emerging leaders in the avant-garde underworld of Soviet fashion design. They labor over sewing machines in cramped apartments shared by husbands and children; every drawer is crammed with fabric, zippers and buttons scrounged up in state stores and weekend flea markets. Thanks to their sardonic use of hallowed Soviet symbols, the two women cannot be members of the Society of Soviet Designers, and their styles are not bought by Dom Modeli, the state fashion center...