Amidst imaginative hits for the mob, Hanada becomes both hunter and hunted. His problems, which include a boiled rice fetish, are intensified as he becomes obsessed with climbing his own corporate latter. The entire story unravels in narrative spasms as the women in his life try to kill him, and the mob puts out a contract on him. Harsh eroticism, cruel humor, and Jo Shishido as the hippest of the hip of professional killers. October 24 Station - Eki 1981, Dir.
Station is the latter.
A box office hit in the year of its release, the film follows the travails of a police sharpshooter on the trail of a cop-killer. Estranged from his wife, Detective Eiji Mikami follows the strange trail of his quarry as it intersects his own life. The narrative is impelled forward by a series of railway station encounters. Takakura has been in at least three long-running film series. This is classic Yakuza honor of the warrior-type stuff.