Finally checked out "Pale Flower" recently, which I haven't seen discussed much in this thread. Damn is it a brilliant, stylish film. It's such a huge influence on the modern subgenre of cool, stylish gangster films. It kind of exists in the middle, in terms of tone and style, between Kurosawa films like "The Bad Sleep Well" and "High and Low" and the batshit crazy Yakuza films of Seijun Suzuki like "Tokyo Drifter" and "Branded to Kill". It's fantastic.
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