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Wolves, Pigs And Men

Film Threat
film
review
japan
Story by Michael Talbot-Haynes
scrn logline
Two estranged brothers, one a jailbird, the other a Yakuza underling, are forced to team up for a deadly drug heist that puts them on a collision course with their ruthless eldest sibling.
beat sheet
  • This 1964 Yakuza crime classic, directed by the legendary Kinji Fukasaku, is hailed as a seminal work that influenced later cinematic masterminds like Scorsese and Oliver Stone.
  • The film's opening whiplash montage, depicting the events leading to the brothers' fateful reunion, is cited as a precursor to the kinetic, visually-striking style of later classics like Natural Born Killers.
call sheet
Kinji Fukasaku, Jun'ya Sato, Ken Takakura, Kin'ya Kitaoji, Rentaro Mikuni, Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Yakuza, Wolves, Pigs And Men, Battle Royale, Message From Space, Goodfellas, Bringing In The Dead, The Age of Innocence, Natural Born Killers
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