Yokohama BJ burûsu

What a delightful and quirky little film this is. A very unusual Japanese one, although there is mention of the 'The Family' and yakuza but this man, the rather good actor, is Yusaku Matsuda and in this one a blues singer called BJ. When this film was made we could see where the massive docks and train tracks were beginning pulled down turned into the new. But there still is the old town, the other side of the tracks and that is where this is set, especially in the dark, at night and the cinematography amazingly almost poetic. Much like a noir and we see BJ as a loner, walking around and singing in cellar bars but getting involved with the corruption and drug trafficking and the underground gay and seedy biker underbelly. There is something of the wit and melancholy of Robert Altman's, The Long Goodbye, although there are no cats here but instead splendid jazzy, blues.