Rainy Dog

Yuuji (Sho Aikawa), a yakuza who makes his living carrying out assassinations for a local crime boss in Taiwan, is barely scraping by when a woman from his past shows up with some unexpected baggage: his son. But does Yuuji have it in him to be a father? Special features in this second installment of director Takashi Miike's Black Society Trilogy include a full-length feature commentary by Japanese cinema scribe Tom Mes.

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The worst father in the world is saddled with a mute child who may or may not be his son in the second film in Miike's Black Society Trilogy. Unlike the first movie, Shinjuku Triad Society, which is mostly violence and action, Rainy Dog is more of a character study. Yes, it has plenty of violence, the main character is an assassin after all, but it also has a lot of heart. All of the movies in the trilogy are individual, stand-alone films. The only relation they have to each other is the gangster underworld and the fact that the main characters are foreigners. This trilogy is really about fitting into a society that views you as an outsider. If you like Rainy Dog, I also recommend seeing the third film, Ley Lines.
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