Royal/T
8910 Washington Blvd
310.559.6300
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Afraid to Die
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Wednesday Nov 26, 2008 (7pm)
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$6
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Yakuza new-wave noir hijacks Royal/T tonight in a screening of the ex-con thriller Afraid to Die. Influenced by Antonioni, Fellini, and Visconti – director Yasuzo Masumura was a student of all three – the film is more stylish and restrained than your average mob flick. Its plot winds relentlessly, making cinematic rest stops for go-go geishas and old men with elaborate back tattoos. Takeo, a mobster on the road to a better life, is played by the intense Yukio Mishima, a Japanese writer who committed ritual suicide 10 years after playing the role.
