Word: yusaku
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tell apart. One is Shohei Imamura's stark meditation on Hiroshima 1945. The other is a cop movie backed by some heavy Hollywood artillery: the producers of Fatal Attraction. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia are two New York City detectives on the trail of a cool, vicious Japanese gangster (Yusaku Matsuda). Their contact in the Osaka constabulary is a by- the-book gent (Ken Takakura) affronted by Douglas' bullying. You've seen this picture before; last year it was called Red Heat. "Theft is theft -- there is no gray area," Takakura observes, and Douglas ripostes, "New York...
...movie's best performance comes from Yusaku Natsuda, who portrays an upstart crime boss named Sato. Like Douglas, Natsuda gets little help from the screenwriters. Nonetheless, he creates one wicked character in Sato. Anyone who sees the film won't forget Natsuda's grisly digital sacrifice in the next-to-last scene...
Judge Ove Ovesan of Denmark scored it 144-143, Judge Yusaku Yoshida of Japan saw it 146-145, and Judge Guy Jutras of Canada had it 144-142, all for the 29-year-old Hagler, who apparently kept his title with his big effort in the final round...
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