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Availability: Special Order - Due to low demand, we do not normally keep stock of this title onhand. Once you order it, we will order it from our supplier and ship it out to you. We do not bill you for Special Order items until they ship. You cannot cancel Special Order items after purchase. Director: Hiroyuki Tanaka (Sabu) Released: 1998 [Japan] Genre: Crime     Sub-Genre: Dark Comedy Keywords:  Action/Adventure || Bank || Drama || Gangs / Gangsters || Japan / Japanese || Murder || Robbers / Robbery || Thriller

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Overview:	Unlucky Monkey, the third feature by actor turned director Sabu, also has a comic spin, but more than snappy dialogue and clever situations, Sabu's forte is slapstick comedy reminiscent of Buster Keaton at his most manic. Like his deadpan master, Sabu builds narrative machinery into his film that, once set in motion by a goofy mistake or misunderstanding, develops a giddy, headlong momentum, according to a crazily logical design. Unlucky Monkey is his most ingeniously constructed cinematic contraption yet. It begins with a chase when a bank robber (Shinichi Tsutsumi) is followed out of the door by the bank's rent-a-cop. Meanwhile, on a parallel narrative plane, three yakuza find themselves in dutch when one of them accidentally kills a high honcho in a rival gang. Faced with a life-and-death dilemma, these characters find their lives becoming entangled in ways that are madly improbable, but the film's dynamism, inventiveness and goofball conviction carry us through. One wonders, though, if Sabu will ever make a movie in which the hero doesn't have to be a marathoner to survive. Courtesy Of Asian Film Connections, an HKFlix Affiliate Site.
Cast:	Shinichi Tsutsumi  ||  Hiroshi Shimizu  ||  Akira Yamamoto  ||  Ikko Suzuki  ||  Kimika Yoshino  ||  Susumu Terajima  ||  Kanji Tsuda (Click any actor to search for more of their movies!)
Running Time:	107 mins. (approx.)
Languages:	Japanese
Subtitles:	ENGLISH, Dutch
Distributor:	Mo Asia  [A Netherlands-Based Distributor]
Rating:	UN - "Unrated. This film has not been rated by the review board."
Features:	Letterboxed Stereo Trailer Slideshow