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TOKYO FIST

By Shinya TSUKAMOTO

NIKKATSU CORPORATION - as SALES All rights

Thriller - Completed 1995

- Year of production
- 1995
- Genres
- Thriller
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 87 mn
- Director(s)
- Shinya TSUKAMOTO
- Writer(s)
- Shinya TSUKAMOTO
- Cast
- Shinya TSUKAMOTO, Kaori FUJII, Koji TSUKAMOTO
- Producer(s)
- Shinya TSUKAMOTO (Kaiju Theater)
- Synopsis
- Once again Tsukamoto steps out from behind the camera and stars as Tsuda, the archetypal Japanese salaryman, a cog in the machine seemingly cut off from his own being by hours and hours of work. He’s married to polite and compliant Hizuru, the dictionary definition of an ideal Japanese wife. Their life is happy, at least on the surface, at least until Tsuda's brother, Kojima (played by Tsukamoto's own real life brother, Koji) shows up on the scene. As a pro boxer Koji's business is violence and even before the proverbial sand is kicked in Tsuda's face we can already sense the wonder and jealousy with which he views his brother’s transformed body; but once Kojima seduces Hizuru, revealing that he just doesn't excel at physical violence, but mental and emotional brutality as well, does Tsuda get himself to the gym and into training so he can wreak his revenge with his fists.