Good concept, poorly executed.

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

as a fan of japan extreme cinema Takashi Miike is one of my favorite director in the world.After seeing his morden stuff like Audition,Ichi the killer,13 assassins i really curious to watch his older stuff and Fudoh:the new generation came to my mind and i have to say:Oh boy what a movie.The movie is about a young boy named Riki after witnessing his father kill his older brother grew up become a young yakuza boss and set up a plan to eliminated all the people who involved in his brother death in a very crude and brutal.Apart from the ultra violent and how over the top this movie is i find the crime drama very interesting and it makes you go from a surprise to another surprise in a very twisted way.The music composed by Chu Ishikawa whom you may know for the Tetsuo the iron man soundtrack is awesome as always but the problem of this movie is it end with a cliffhanger and i really want to know what happen next but to bad the sequels never been made

Japan's Takashi Miike has made some of the most strange, violent, and compelling movies of the last ten years, and whilst I won't pretend to have understood or even enjoyed all of those that I have seen, I salute Mr. Miike for his ability to consistently turn out innovative work; one simply finds it impossible to predict his next move.Fudoh: The Next Generation takes a standard tale of warring Yakuza and adds so many bizarre elements and madcap characters that it is unmissable for fans of weird Asian cinema. It would definitely appeal to those that have enjoyed the similarly OTT Dead or Alive and the bloodthirsty Ichi the Killer.Two rival gangs, the Nioh and Yasha, are on the brink of gang war. As a peace offering, Iwao Fudoh of the Nioh offers his son's head (literally!). Unbeknownst to Iwao, Riki, his youngest son, witnesses his brother's gruesome death.Ten years later and Riki is the leader of his own gang, whose members are made up from primary-school hit men and deadly schoolgirl assassins. Riki Fudoh and his gang have been busy bumping off the Nioh bosses in order to gain complete control of the area; but his father has other ideas, getting his illegitimate son Gondoh to start slaughtering Riki's gang.Unlike some of Miike's other films, the narrative is fairly simple to follow, meaning that one can relax, kick back and enjoy the crazy antics that pack this terrific movie. With it's killer children, a hermaphrodite who shoots darts from her cooch, a giant of a bloke who gets blown up but returns wearing a cool metal mask, a bad guy with metal rimmed boots, and a sexy leather-mini-skirt wearing teacher, Fudoh boasts an incredible roster of unusual characters. These maniacs slice, chop, shoot and dissolve (there are a couple of juicy acid attacks) each other without hesitation meaning that this film is a dream-come-true for gore-hounds.If you're after a truly unique viewing experience, then you really should check out this extremely outrageous and bloody movie, 'cos it's a winner from start to finish.

There is absolutely nothing good about this movie, lets start from there. The plot is old and in order to make such old plot work, new things have to be added, and it was done, just with failure...The scenes are bold, in a yakuza movies you expect Honor to prevail but this movie portrays a comedic approach and everything is not serious. Lots of cliché and twists which can be guessed minutes ahead i.e. the ending with the shooting, shooting of the father and the secret sharing part of two ladies which was a totally unnecessary scene because it didn't link to the main part whatsoever. The shooting through the . part of a woman, is truly overdone...nothing more about that, it is just something that shouldn't be in such films, doesn't fit the genre.Perhaps, Japanese cinema is not in my taste however, i did enjoy Beat Takeshi movies.

I've mentioned in some of my other reviews ('Ezo Ezo Azaraku II' and 'Mr Vampire') that SBS (a free-to-air Australian channel specializing foreign programs) shows some pretty cool and pretty weird. That being said, I watched this not knowing who Takashi Miike was, and ignoring SBS's usual "warning: this program contains material that may disturb some viewers". That was quite the understatement. I reckon 'Fudoh' could disturb most viewers.When Riki Fudoh (Shosuke Tanihara) was a child, he witnessed his father Iwao Fudoh, a yakuza boss, behead Riki's older brother, Ryu. Ryu has committed crimes against the Yakuza and dishonoured his father, and in such a society, it is Iwao's duty to kill him, regardless of Ryu being his first son. Naturally, this has an impact on Riki. Skip to Riki in high-school, and he is now the boss of his own Yakuza gang, with the intent of taking out the older generation of Yakuza, and destroying the old ways. Only in Japan...'Fudoh' plays out as quite the violent yakuza drama. It may not have the body-count of a John Woo or Quentin Tarantino movie, but the "controversial violence" of Tarantino's 'Kill Bill' has nothing on this, and I'd be willing that Woo would much prefer to avoid making anything like this. Riki's yakuza gang is made of up teenagers and kids. Very early into the movie, we see some kids (I dare say no older than 8 at the most) pull out their hand-guns and assassinate a rival Yakuza. That I could barely handle, but Miike just goes further and further with some rather unusual acts of violence and very bizarre sex-scenes.And even through all that, there is still a plot. 'Fudoh' explores the same theme as 'Battle Royale' - the younger generation of Japanese not understanding, or not willing to understand, the long-lasting feudal traditions in Japanese culture. OK, I'll admit that is how I understood it. Maybe I got it wrong, maybe I was just looking for something that wasn't there, but I'm fairly sure that my interpretation is at least somewhat correct. It is easy to overwhelmed by the action on-screen, and I wouldn't be surprised if some people completely missed any theme and left only with the image of someone's brain stuck to a wall.'Fudoh' is a good movie, but not for the faint of heart. Or most people. In fact, it may be best if only shown to fans of the more violent action movies from Asia - 9/10