If you loved Fugitive Alien, try Yakuza Weapon

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.

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Fugitive Alien

1987 · dir. Kiyozumi Fukazawa, Minoru Kanaya

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Yakuza Weapon

2011 · dir. Tak Sakaguchi, Yudai Yamaguchi

What they share

Theyboth carry the 3am cult mood tag, and they sit in Action / Science Fiction territory. If that's the register that drew you to Fugitive Alien, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

3am cult

What Yakuza Weapon is

Island dusk. A cicada's drone. A son returns. His yakuza-boss father murdered, young Shozo seeks vengeance on a gangland traitor. Both fighters fall in ruin, only to rise again remade as cyborg killers. A gonzo remix of Fukasaku and early Cronenberg for midnight movie fans.

If you loved Fugitive Alien, try Yakuza Weapon

Fugitive Alien

Yakuza Weapon

What they share

What Yakuza Weapon is

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