Graveyard of Honor (2002 film)
2002 film by Takashi Miike
Graveyard of Honor (新・仁義の墓場, Shin Jingi no Hakaba; lit. "New Graveyard of Honor") is a yakuza film directed by Takashi Miike. It is a remake of Kinji Fukasaku's 1975 film of the same name, which is based on the life of a real-life Yakuza member.
Plot
Ishimatsu lives a yakuza lifestyle in an extreme manner. When he is ordered to murder another yakuza from another family in a public club, he accepts his orders. He knows that the public execution will lead to his arrest and prosecution for murder, which he knowingly accepts as part of his perceived understanding of the yakuza code of honor. While still free to walk the streets before he is arrested, Ishimatsu visits some of the night clubs and he is attracted to one of the waitresses at a restaurant he stops to eat at. Another of his yakuza friends invites her to visit Ishimatsu at a prearranged hideout, which the yakuza brothers keep for different purposes. When she does visit him that night to accept his invitation, Ishimatsu takes it as his opportunity to pounce on her aggressively and make her his mistress. It turns out that she was likely a virgin as apparently witnessed by the maidenly blood on Ishimatsu's hand after he finished her sexual initiation.
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