Pure Japanese

Pure Japanese

2022 · 88 min · JA · 7.4 (28 votes)
Dir. Daishi Matsunaga · Starring Dean Fujioka, Aju Makita, Tetsuya Bessho, Tetsu Watanabe, Jun Murakami, Daichi Kaneko · Music Hiroko Sebu
ActionDrama

Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.

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A raw, unflinching descent into a man's psyche. It's a brutal, yet strangely compelling, exploration of how trauma and the pursuit of validation can warp perception, leading to a spiral of escalating violence.

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