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Junya Sato was motivated to entertain the audience throughout his long career, while also not shying away from challenging his viewers by taking them out of their comfort zone. His hit action thriller “The Bullet Train” delivered the thrills while being a clever commentary on the Japanese economic miracle. For another film of his, “Proof of the Man,” Sato follows a similar modus operandi. This time, he weaves together a melancholic crime drama that delves into themes of racial identity and post-war trauma.

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The source of adaptation is a bestselling novel of the same name by Seiichi Morimura. Like Sato, Morimura wasn’t afraid of challenging his target demographic, as highlighted by his controversial yet successful serialized work “The Devil’s Gluttony,” which explores the atrocities committed at Unit 731, a notorious research facility operated by the Imperial Japanese Army...

Buichi Saito's Danger PaysSTORY68%ACTING75%DIRECTING72%VISUALS74%POSITIVESHilarious parodyGreat comedic actingImpressive finaleNEGATIVESA bit nonsensical script2016-07-2372%Overall ScoreReader Rating: (0 Votes)0%

The second film in Arrow’s Diamond Guys Vol 2 takes a more definite turn towards the comical, being a parody of the crime noir film.

In the film’s intro, it is stated that “danger is where the money is,” and that is actually the main theme of the film, which deals with a case of counterfeiting, revolving around an expert forger and the efforts of a crime syndicate headed by Hijikata and various individuals, to have him working for them. The parody element of the film kicks right in, as these individuals have names like “Glass Headed” Joe (the protagonist), “Slide Rule” Tetsu, and “Dump-Truck” Ken, while the expert forger is comfortably named “The Expert.” The three aforementioned eventually team up, and along with Tomoko, an ex-secretary, skilled in Judo and Aikido,...