If you loved Escape from Japan, try Naked Bullet

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

You already loved

Escape from Japan

Escape from Japan

1964 · dir. Yoshishige Yoshida

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Naked Bullet

1969 · dir. Kōji Wakamatsu

What they share

Theysit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Escape from Japan, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Naked Bullet is

Tokyo streets at dusk with neon lights reflecting off wet pavement a lone saxophone wails. Rival gangs clash over a young woman. A product of Japan's radical 60s cinema movement.