Massacre Gun
7.1 /10 2 Votes7.2
Duration | 7/10 IMDb Genre Crime Country Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 6, 1967 (1967-09-06) Screenplay Yasuharu Hasebe, Ryuzo Nakanishi Cast Similar movies Hitman: Agent 47 , John Wick , Mr. & Mrs. Smith , Hitman , Run All Night , Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Massacre Gun (みな殺しの拳銃, Minagoroshi no kenjū) is a 1967 Japanese yakuza film directed by Yasuharu Hasebe.
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Cast
Production
Massacre Gunn was written by veteran studio screenwriter Ryûzô Nakanishi and credited to him and Takashii Fujii. Fujii was a pseudonym for director Yasuharu Hasebe.
Release
Massacre Gun was released theatrically in Japan on September 6, 1967. The film has receive retrospective release at film festivals, such as the 2012 Fantasia Film Festival where the film received its North American premiere.
Massacre Gun was released on DVD and blu-ray by Arrow Video on April 6, 2015.
Reception
PopMatters gave Massacre Gun a five out of ten rating, noting that the film's story was "as formulaic as possible" and that the film was " all very stylish, and that’s what director Yasuharu Hasebe offers to make the predictable story at least worth looking at." In Video Librarian, a review noted that the film contains "stylish set pieces that don't make much sense but look great" and that Massacre Gun "is a film where style is the substance, an entertaining Japanese gangster noir that will likely be appreciated by fans of Quentin Tarantino."
References
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