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of the lines in the script of this film, the brutal, packed, larger than
life and reviewed sequel of the one we all remember, goes: “Although
this fight may cost me my life, I’ll give it up without a whisper
of complaint”. Life is precisely what was lost by its director,
Kinji Fukasaku, a shogun of Japanese action cinema, while filming this
second instalment of the movie, completed by his son Kenta. In the script
and on the screen, cards down, weapons in hand, the until today masked
world war between teenagers and adults continues. Now the teenagers are
kidnapped by their teachers to fight against a young terrorist who has
formed a liberation group known as “The Wild Seven”, a name
bringing us happy memories of Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch,
Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven, Kurosawa’s
samurais... |
