Yakuza Apocalypse

Note: I streamed this some time ago, and can confirm that the subtitles were a good 2 minutes behind the sound and picture. Nonetheless, I found the film well worth watching.So I bought it on DVD. I am happy to report that the subtitles are synchronized properly on the DVD!This film is about a yakuza boss who is a vampire. He creates other vampires, one of whom becomes the main protagonist. Lots of swordplay, martial arts, and firearms. Also scenes of mobs of vampires chasing non-vampires. That is, a good time is had by all.There is one small problem: toward the end we get a sequence involving a really large monster that tromps around smashing what are clearly tiny plastic figures into the ground. IOW, this sequences sucks. But it does set up for the ending, which is well worth watching, as our hero achieves a new level of his vampiric powers.Note: these are Japanese vampires, so work a bit differently from European vampires. But they are just as fun to watch!

I really enjoyed this film, but will recommend it with a warning. This isn't your, "Sit down for an amazing plot and riveting character development" type of film. It's cooky, crazy and is everything you'd come to expect from this director.It is a great film to sit around with friends or even alone and watch for a good laugh. It has everything from hilarious wardrobe changes, to kung fu frogs. I personally spent the majority of the movie with a smile on my face from laughing so much. I feel like the average review is so low because people watch it expecting a high budget Michael Bay style movie with kung fu and explosions and while it has both the delivery is for a less serious and more comedic approach. Its not too cheesy that it makes you feel awkward for watching it, and it treads a fine line between action and relief comedy.So that brings me to the main point of this review. If you are looking for a great cheesy movie to sit down with and have a good laugh with your friends, or just enjoy the format itself, you will definitely enjoy this movie. If you are here for a rather serious type movie where you hang on to every word, and expect larger than life heroes and heroines, i do not think this movie would be for you.All said and done I will and have been recommending this movie to friends and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good laugh and enjoyable movie.

Whaaaa.......? Wow. This movie was like. Hmmmm. It had a lot going on to say the least. It seemed to have an old western feel to some parts of it. I like the fact that it had like an asian mafia in it with a twist and the characters were all very unique, and comfortable with their roles. It took place in a small town called Yakuza. The town was a slum and not like the atypical movie, felt like the old western flicks as everything was just kind of worn and used looking without being a B movie. The actors were spot on with their lines and I liked the kick boxing martial arts rather than the over done anti-gravity martial arts that are so outlandish you love it anyway. But these martial artists were for real with no special effects. If you like movies with Asian Mafia in a small worn down town, a weird guy with an electric bolt shooting gun, a gecko that can do a beat down, a cast of characters that mostly turn into vampires, a big weird semi truck that has twin rotating machine guns and colored blinking lites, and a long asian movie with a western flavor, then this is your movie. I think my favorite character was the soup guy that knew the old boss. Entertaining if not a bit long. I don't care for serpentine vampires though. Ew.

K, sometimes you see a movie, and just gape and think, "OMG, I so have to watch that!" Yakuza Apocalypse didn't disappoint. Yakuza boss that's a vampire, bites his sub after he gets his head ripped off (the boss got his head ripped off, and yes still managed to bite). Kageyama, the yakuza sub turned new Yakuza Vampire Boss (capitalized so you know it's important), starts biting people and it doesn't make them vampires, it makes them yakuza. So, shortly the whole town is yakuza. That's when the Frog comes, Kaeru-kun. Yes, you heard that right. Such a bizarre movie, with martial arts ass kicking and characters straight out of a non-existent anime (yes, a kappa that smells bad, and a "christian" vampire hunter with a lightning gun). Highly Recommended, but really only if you can stomach that which is truly addlepated.

There are a thousand things happening in this movie, not a bit of it makes any sense, the first hour or so is occasionally excellent, but more often a mess, which can make it pretty boring at times. There were times in the first hour that I found myself thinking this movie would be so much better if Stephen Chow was behind the camera (there are bits that seem to be aiming for the mix of loony toons lunacy and real sense of gravity that make some of his movies so great).This movie gets 4 stars because the last 40-50 minutes are absolutely transcendent. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what the stakes were and I have no idea if or how anything that happened in that time resolved anything that happened in the prior 60 minutes, but I don't think I stopped grinning the entire time. It was pure joy.

Just accept that there is absolutely NO script here, its just a bunch of loosely connected LSD-impacted ideas that someone got funding for. Watch when you're extremely bored. If you make it all the way through the movie, chances are you will have run out of the ability to say "WTH" and will have switched to "WTF" even before you get to the psychotic frog...which is *hilarious* BTW. Not too bad waste of a few hours during the afternoon of Snowmageddon 2016. Should be filed under comedy-horror, it's not really scary.

I didn't like that the there was a subtitle delay.

Just like the title states. Issues were, captions were not playing I'm time with audio. Need an English dub big time. This seemed a great movie I mean the Yakuzas and vampires. Unfortunately I couldn't enjoy it esp with captions being delayed or not even appearing on the screen.

Added to my collection of weird and funny films. Slightly slow start but fairly quickly became more interesting. And weird. Some of the scenes were laugh out funny, especially when it went from one scene with a geeky looking Yayan Ruhain from the Raid films being tortured in a cellar to an overly big frog looking mascot appearing from nowhere, doing martial arts and killing people with his hypnotic stare.

What the hell?Typical Takashi Miike movie. Funny, tragic and totally bizarre. Loved the Karate Frog God at the end.Watched it with a good friend and fellow Japanese cinema buff, and we both stared at one another as the credits rolled mouthing 'what did we just watch?!'Would recommend this for those familiar with 'Beat' Takashi's work.

Action movie brilliant

Really not sure what I just watched, starts as a tale about a kindly Yakuza boss who happens to be a vampire then it get's a bit surreal when a guy turns up with a beak and there's this guy in a frog/mascot outfit. Still watched n enjoyed

Rubbish about 10 seconds worth watching