Cast
Crew
Y
Yasushi Shimamura
Editor
T
Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Producer
T
Tatsuo Ozeki
Art Direction
N
Naosuke Imaizumi
Director of Photography
I
Ichirō Fujita
Screenplay
M
Masaaki Sakurai
Lighting Technician
A
Atorie Shira
Original Music Composer
Black Society Collection
After several years spent working almost exclusively in the direct-to-video world of V-cinema in Japan, Takashi Miike announced himself as a world-class filmmaking talent with this trio of thematically-connected, character-centric crime stories about violence, the underworld of Japanese society, families both real and surrogate, and the possibly hopeless task of finding one's place in the world. His first films made specifically for theatrical release, and his first for a major studio, the Black Society Trilogy was the beginning of Miike's mature career as a filmmaker and they remain among the prolific director's finest works.
