The whole film you can see why this had immense transnational flow through Mainland China in the late 1970s cementing Takakura Ken as the image of cool suave foreigner. A bit long, but it was needed to fit every batshit insane plot twist, double cross, and bear attack in.

Knowing John Woo just directed a remake of the film in the past two years, it was hard not to see the influence or impact the film had on him as a young aspiring director. Sato Junya was the go to action director of the 1970s and a person Kadokawa relied on repeatedly to shoot life into his larger scale action pictures in the 1980s and his comeback in 2005 with Yamato.

An over-the-top wrong man/fugitive action thriller starring Ken Takakura as the righteous prosecutor Morioka evading from arrest of the police, led by Yoshio Harada’s detective Yamura. A love romance, albeit unconvincing, was developed when Morioka saved a rich girl Yokomichi from attack of a bear. Fast paced and large in scope (the film is two-and-a-half hour long and never slows down), the plot is too far-fetched to be believable (for instance riding horses at the center of Shinjuku?). And the last act has a sharp turn into cooperation conspiracy meeting Shock Corridor. Nonetheless the film is a fun watch, and historically it was the first foreign film entering the Chinese market after the Cultural Revolution in 1979, Ken Takakura becomes a household name thereafter. If John Woo’s remake gonna have the same amount of tension and fun, I’m totally in.

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This film for me was pure nostalgia, even though I didn’t manage to watch it with the Chinese dub like I did when I was a kid (“就是他！！”）

My favorite parts of the film are the campy zoom ins, the pulpy Japanese music added to an otherwise very serious, suspenseful, brooding plot, as well as that entire sequence at the mental institution - 2.5 out of the 3.5 stars are for that institution sequence. 

The middle part dragged, ending really did not resolve things well, and the two women in the film were dumb AF so that was frustrating on multiple levels.

This is going to be remade by John Woo, and it certainly is a good example of a movie with some good moments or ideas, but overall just not well executed. Prime material for a good remake.

Revisited this after a while and I gotta say that it still whips. Love the leitmotif. First time watch was back in 2017, to get some context for its remake. I can definitely see why Ken Takakura became an icon in China, this being one of the first films released post Cultural Revolution.

Also that bear attack! Good shit.

A wrongfully accused fugitive on the run trying to prove his own innocence because cops are cops. As rote good as these things go, but kind of cheesy, with a funny soundtrack and a safe, tv feel. All plusses in my book, but the two people in love on the lam genre is far and away the better one.

A two and a half hour thriller that barely pauses for breath. It manages to cram in everything from fighting a bear to riding horses through the streets of Tokyo to the lead getting himself committed. But other than the final act it struggled to build tension. Though as it continually pushes the story forward that's not a huge negative here.

This is the kind of films I try to search and watched, quite impressive and good, fun and nice story to watched.

This can be seen on their followers like on films on John Woo's Films, the fugitive, point break, catch me if you can and other etc.

unexciting, muddled yarn about a wronged man

2,5. Score is funny, but not the final catchphrase: "I've learned that with laws only you can't vanquish evil".

火中做爱，城市跑马。血性浪漫，冗长琐碎。反派设定早已见怪不怪。

Revisited this after a while and I gotta say that it still whips. Love the leitmotif. First time watch was back in 2017, to get some context for its remake. I can definitely see why Ken Takakura became an icon in China, this being one of the first films released post Cultural Revolution.

Also that bear attack! Good shit.

A wrongfully accused fugitive on the run trying to prove his own innocence because cops are cops. As rote good as these things go, but kind of cheesy, with a funny soundtrack and a safe, tv feel. All plusses in my book, but the two people in love on the lam genre is far and away the better one.

원작과 같은 아름다운 제목으로 태어난 영화
누명을 쓰고 도주하는 검사가 일본 열도를 종횡무진하면서 다양한 사건과 장면들을 듬뿍담아 긴 상영시간에도 끝까지 시선을 붙잡아 놓는다 만약 7080 그 시절에 수입되었다면 화제가 되었을 것이고 헐리우드 배우 이름 뒤에 주인공의 이름이 추가었을 것이다 문혁이 끝난 죽의 장막 중국에서는 수 억명의 인민들이 보고 이십일세기 주인공의 죽음까지 추모했다고 하니 다양성 획일성이나 작품성을 떠나 첫 영화가 개인의 정서에 미치는 영향은 유아기 이유식에 길들어진 것과 크게 다르지 않은 것 같다 그래서 그런지 사십년 뒤에 중국에서 다시 만든 영화의 제목 또한 그때와 동일하다
더티 해리를 다 모아 놓은 듯한 풍성한 볼거리를 담고있는 이 작품은 정의로운 검사가 모함과 누명을 쓰고 생사를 넘나들며 험난한 분노의 강을 건너는 범죄 형사물의 수작이다

在大学的电影院里看的第一部电影 经典

This film for me was pure nostalgia, even though I didn’t manage to watch it with the Chinese dub like I did when I was a kid (“就是他！！”）

My favorite parts of the film are the campy zoom ins, the pulpy Japanese music added to an otherwise very serious, suspenseful, brooding plot, as well as that entire sequence at the mental institution - 2.5 out of the 3.5 stars are for that institution sequence. 

The middle part dragged, ending really did not resolve things well, and the two women in the film were dumb AF so that was frustrating on multiple levels.

The whole film you can see why this had immense transnational flow through Mainland China in the late 1970s cementing Takakura Ken as the image of cool suave foreigner. A bit long, but it was needed to fit every batshit insane plot twist, double cross, and bear attack in.

Knowing John Woo just directed a remake of the film in the past two years, it was hard not to see the influence or impact the film had on him as a young aspiring director. Sato Junya was the go to action director of the 1970s and a person Kadokawa relied on repeatedly to shoot life into his larger scale action pictures in the 1980s and his comeback in 2005 with Yamato.

A two and a half hour thriller that barely pauses for breath. It manages to cram in everything from fighting a bear to riding horses through the streets of Tokyo to the lead getting himself committed. But other than the final act it struggled to build tension. Though as it continually pushes the story forward that's not a huge negative here.