In short, Yakuza Apocalypse is too bizarre and too much of a mess to deem watchable. Simply disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2019

Yakuza Apocalypse's third act goes into full-blown action territory, replete with hand-to-hand combat, bodily fluids, and surreal supernatural business

| Sep 1, 2019

Treading that very fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous, Yakuza Apocalypse draws deeply from both pools. It's utter madness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2019

A decidedly minor entry in Miike's expansive catalogue, Yakuza Apocalypse is meant to please and entertain, and his fans (this critic included) can't help but be pleased and entertained.

| Nov 14, 2017

Yakuza Apocalypse is terribly uneven in tone and I frequently had a hard time trying to place the film's intentions.

| Nov 3, 2017

Its subtle victory (though maybe its central weakness as well) is its denial of quick, easy fanboy pleasures.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 21, 2016

... back to the wild and weird Miike, with extreme action, bloody spectacle, goofy humor, and abrupt curveballs every time you think you think you've got a handle on it.

| Feb 12, 2016

If you're a Miike fan or simply looking for something weird and wonderful then you certainly won't forget this in a hurry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2016

Slow down, Takashi.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2016

It is extremely mad, long and often tiresome. Yet it is acted with eerie and absolute conviction, and has an interestingly surreal quality; Miike has a claim to be one of cinema's genuine surrealists.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 31, 2015

Yakuza Apocalypse is barely comprehensible barminess. But it's definitely fun.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 21, 2015

If you want to enjoy Yakuza Apocalypse for its snippets of inspiration, we suggest a Baudrillardian form of watching: flick it on and off between late night channel hopping.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 20, 2015

Those looking for a straight action-crime flick will be disappointed or horrified. Probably both.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 12, 2015

"Yakuza Apocalypse" may not be Miike's best film, and lord knows he'll try to top it ten times over, but it's the only one to feature a kung-fu frog monster destroyer of worlds.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2015

A very good film, but only if you're willing to inevitably submit to its anarchic sensibility.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2015

Real silliness doesn't settle into a routine. This movie's brand of it does.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 9, 2015

"Yakuza Apocalypse" is a movie that is perhaps not meant to be understood so much as witnessed.

| Oct 9, 2015

For those fans who don't mind enduring some tedium and confusion, "Yakuza Apocalypse" at least offers something memorably bizarre.

| Oct 8, 2015

By the end ... you might be as punch-drunk as Kageyama in his final showdown, and too exhausted to care.

| Oct 8, 2015

Lurid and nutso doesn't even begin to describe this opus. You have to see it to believe it ... if you have the stomach for it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 8, 2015