Sanno-kai controls the Kanto region. Sekiuchi is too trusting. Kato is playing the long game. Ikemoto receives orders. Murase is in the dark. Ishihara relies on his cunning. Kimura stabs a rival. Otomo wants revenge.Who had a painful experience at the dentist? Why did Otomo visit the public baths? Can Mizuno make his mark?I rate Autoreiji at 26.64 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a gritty 8/10 on IMDB.

Outrage is a rather boring Yakuza-Movie about a bunch of leaders that scheme and fight against each other to gain control and increase their rank. Unfortunately, the plot is weak. They speak a few lines, there's a brutal murder here and there, but everything seems so distant that you can't bring yourself to care about who lives and who dies. You just watch and wait for the next one to be backstabbed. The slow pace of Outrage combined with the fact that there isn't really much of a story to tell makes the movie below average for me and therefore 4 stars. However, the acting was okay.Not a total waste of time, but not really worth the time either.

"When Mr. Murase and I were in prison together we made a pact over saké." After the head of a Yakuza family learns of his henchman's betrayal to a drug dealing family he starts a war that changes everything. This is a very good movie that is equal parts tense, bloody and dramatic. The only problem is that the flow seems off. Going from scenes of murder and finger cutting to long sequences of nothing happening makes it hard to get fully engrossed. On the other hand it is also a movie that forces you to keep watching in order to find out which family will ultimately win out. I did enjoy this but this is not a movie for everyone. A movie with no real good guy and leaves you watching not sure who to root for. I like movies like that. Overall, a good but slow movie that is almost an updated Japanese Godfather. I give it a B.

This is a well-done gangster film, suspenseful, never-boring and convincingly acted. At first the story seemed very confusing and I thought I wouldn't be able to figure it out. But soon it becomes (mostly) clear that this is a power struggle between rival gangs and rivals within the gangs. I lived in Japan for 4 years and while I never had any dealings with the yakuza, everything in the film seems convincing and in character with Japanese culture. As for the title of this review, the film is also incredibly bloody. There were 3 or 4 scenes when I had to cover my eyes, I just couldn't watch. I'm not big on horror films or violence in general but I'm also not a prude. In contrast to movies like Kill Bill where the violence is almost cartoonish, this film's violence seems very realistic which makes it hard-to-watch. It's not a reason not to see the film: in fact in some ways the violence serves to make the film more powerful. But if you just hate violence or can't stand seeing some blood, then this is not the film for you . As for me, I very much enjoyed it.