Onibi

Hits all the right notes --- it's too bad they've all been played before. Separating this from the rest of the Japanese New-New Wave is the style: Mochizuki shoots his scenes with a pornographer's (as he once was) clinical, cynical eye. And Yoshio Harada is indeed the right man for this job, emoting like an abused, muzzled pit bull. All of this comes together to imply that external factors do not destroy a man, only the violence he briefly allows to come up for air.