Product Details

• Actors: Jo Shishido
• Directors: Seijun Suzuki
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
• DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001U3TPPC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,730 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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DETECTIVE BUREAU 2-3:GO TO HELL - DVD Movie

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2.0 out of 5 stars does not date well--too overwrought and hammy, August 20, 2011

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Brian Maitland (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (DVD)

I get that the movie is parodying the whole yakuza/police drama but often the acting is stiff and the humor is just plain not funny. Maybe it just did not age well. The whole idea of broadcasting live a prisoner's release where gangs of yakuza await outside the police headquarters is classic but it is just so over the top. Also, the fact they have yakuza with swords is funny in that whole yakuza thinking they are modern-day samurai (and there are real incidents where swords have been used by the yakuza) but it's, to paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables, like literally bringing a knife to a gunfight.

The soundtrack is this crazy jazz that is so catchy. Then there are these ridiculous song numbers at some sort of burlesque club that just do not fit.

Making the leader of the one yakuza actually impotent is a brilliant ploy by the scriptwriter but they do virtually nothing with that.

It is a B movie through and through and has its moments but overall it just doesn't date well. Plus the DVD release has zero on the movie itself (could they not have had some interview clips from the era or anything beyond stills from the flick?) and only has two trailers for other yakuza films.

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool Soundtrack and fun to watch, August 12, 2011

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M. Bonet "comicbooklover" (Pawling, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (DVD)

This movie was cheesy and cool all at the same time. Well worth the rental and time to watch.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Yes, you go to hell..., February 3, 2010

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Nicholas Merchant "Nick Marvalous" (Bronx, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (DVD)

I thought I was gaining a yakuza screen gem. Alas, It was a turd. An enjoyable turd, as far as turds go....I was psyched when the film starts with a gun battle. My eyebrow raised in suspicion when I noticed neither blood nor squibs from the 10 victims. I said to myself, "It's the late 60's, they were a tad squeamish on the blood...it'll still be violent." Boy, was I wrong.

Although visually stylish, it was pretty cheesey and mundane. An annoying jazz-pop score bounced around as our star grimaced across the screen, looking more like a man with the runs than a man on. Tajima is a freelance PI who wants in on the shady underdealings of the underworld. Thus, he convinces the police to let him go undercover and work his way into this new mysterious gang. He manages to find his way into their cool garage, complete with hatches and descending secret staircases...and that's it. The rest of the film, the yakuza are suspicious to the point of overkill. Any self-respecting mobster would have dumped his body long ago if they were that unsure of their new recruit's credibility. Throw in more faces of Tajima's incontinence and a mob moll who's a virgin because her sugar daddy is impotent, a really cool machine gun that's really only used to shoot through concrete (as opposed to mobsters), 2 incompetent sidekicks, and you get this.

I gave this 2 stars out of mercy. I was expecting better fare, more along the lines of Kinji Fukasaku and Bunta Sugawara...but no. I guess if you like that "Tokyo Drifter" garbage, you'll like this. Don't be fooled and don't say I ain't warned you...