If you loved The Execution Game, try The Beast to Die
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.
What they share
Both films are directed by Tōru Murakawa, and they both carry the raw mood tag, and they sit in Action / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Execution Game, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What The Beast to Die is
A neon-lit precinct in a Japanese summer. The bullet casings still smell of powder. A detective finds his colleague’s pistol stamped with the killer’s gait—a twitching corpse on asphalt. A Seijun Suzuki homage that lurches like the killer’s limp.

