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Cinematography
Shinoda frames yakuza like they're already ghosts in black-and-white purgatory.
Direction
Every silence weighs heavier than the violence.
Score
Toru Takemitsu's avant-garde drones haunt the empty spaces.

Director
Masahiro Shinoda
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