#also kiryu wearing Snakeskin belt and shoes...🤨kazumaji crumbs

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Watched the 2007 yakuza movie with a friend tonight!

It was just kinda meh, I think it would've worked better as an original piece and not trying to be an adaptation of something else

There were soooo many unnecessary extra subplots that added absolutely nothing to the story, while so much of the main story was removed, nothing about purgatory, nothing about reina or Shinji, nothing about Shimano(though I also don't really care about him), no crashing Sera's funeral, kazama just doesn't do anything, we don't get to see Nishiki AT ALL until the very end and they made him so ugly 😭 look how they massacred my boy,,,, shitty ass hair looks so greasy and the top was so full like a bad wig,doesn't even get to sacrifice himself in the whole "the responsibilities mine", Yumi is given even LESS agency somehow just shows up and dies, her and haruka don't even get to try to connect and she doesn't even get to apologize

Fight choreography was pretty solid, a lot of hits felt like they hurt, though I felt they drew out when someone was failing/missing their punches a bit too long

I think Kiryu could have been cast better, I don't expect movies to have a bunch of bodybuilders but he was so scrawny give him some sandwiches

The actress for Haruka was great, at the trashed Serena bar I thought she was going to cry about everyone leaving her

Also having to show kiryu how to use a cellphone 😭 old man doesn't understand technology,,,,

I did enjoy the actor who played Majima! Even though his facial hair sucked I thought he was perfectly goofy without being over the top

Fun movie to laugh at with friends but if you enjoyed Takashi Miike's Ace Attorney adaptation, it's nowhere near as good

#really liked majimas jacket too idk what it had going on but it was fun #also kiryu wearing Snakeskin belt and shoes...🤨kazumaji crumbs