The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio
New York Asian Film Festival 2017
June 30 - July 16, 2017
Takashi Miike’s most entertaining and delirious film in years, The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio returns to the pop madness of The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji and turns it up to eleven, resulting in.a yakuza extravaganza that proudly stands on its own.
Takashi Miike’s most entertaining and delirious film in years, The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio returns to the pop madness of The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji and turns it up to eleven, resulting in a yakuza extravaganza that proudly stands on its own. (Sure, there’s a first part, but who cares?) Enter Reiji Kikukawa (Toma Ikuta), the most incompetent cop in Japan, so inept he got fired for stealing lingerie, who finds himself dangling from a helicopter stark naked but for a newspaper to cover his male pride. So, Reiji’s back. And this time, he’s up against the Dragon Skulls, a Chinese gang that’s made an unholy alliance with a dishonored yakuza to bring pain on the almighty Suki-ya clan. Thanks to the uniquely brilliant wit of screenwriter Kankuro Kudo (Too Young to Die), it outshines its predecessor on every level, and the most sufficient response is just three letters: WTF.
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