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

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

| Original Score: 3/4 | 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

Directed by the inimitable Takashi Miike... Apocalypse finds the 55-year-old filmmaker at his silliest, which is saying a lot, as he's responsible for some of the silliest movies ever made.

| Oct 8, 2015

Yakuza Apocalypse is Miike at the top of his game, breaking cinematic rules at every chance while crafting seriously subversive cinema that defangs both the real-world Yakuza, the Japanese government, and, heaven help us, Sanrio, too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2015

This is not a great film, yet for the right audience it could be an entertaining one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 8, 2015

Yakuza Apocalypse is the kind of free-for-all only Miike could stage-pitting not merely different characters, but different genres and tones against each other, until the world cracks in two under the weight.

| Original Score: B | Oct 8, 2015

[A] numbingly idiotic vampire yakuza tale.

| Oct 7, 2015

A pure blast of pop pleasure.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 7, 2015

For all its berserk energy, you will need a very particular sense of humour not to lose patience with the prolific Takashi Miike's latest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 7, 2015

A lazily executed dud padded out with infantile pranks, shambolic plot turns and knockabout action.

| Oct 7, 2015

The demented brilliance of Miike's film lies in the director's ability to craft ideas that are simultaneously sublime and ridiculous.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 7, 2015

Yakuza Apocalypse is not for everyone, but is very, very much for some people.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 7, 2015

If you can get on its wacko wavelength, it's a uniquely crazed, compelling midnight-movie whatsit.

| Oct 6, 2015

The film doesn't add up to much, but it's a diverting tour of Takashi Miike's anything-goes, splatter-paint sensibility.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 4, 2015

Winning gags -- yakuza vampires and frog monsters included -- start off funny but then bludgeon you with repetition.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 14, 2015