Here for once is a direct-to-video action movie that delivers exactly what it promises. From then on, it's guns, fists, swords, and tits all the way as the troubled threesome take on the organisation of loud-suited Minegishi. He is soon joined by two fellow misfits and underworld rejects: a down-on-his luck boxer (who initially beats him up and steals his money) and a hooker whose boyfriend was killed by the same gang. What starts as a walk gradually becomes a crusade as mild-mannered family man changes into lawless, yakuza-hunting vigilante. The next afternoon while on his route, he stops the bus in the middle of the road and walks away, leaving the class of noisy schoolgirls dumbstruck for once in their lives. When he is beaten up by a trio of yakuza after rear-ending their car with his bus and a female colleague runs into trouble with the same bunch, Riki decides he's had enough. But the dull routine of his working man's life is getting to him and the frustrations are building up inside. Though most of these films suffer from the low budgets and low talents involved, Hard Boiled delivers the goods with foul-mouthed efficiency.įor a departure, Takeuchi plays a regular guy this time around, a high school bus driver, a man with a wife and child and a nice suburban home. It's one of the dozens (hundreds is a more appropriate approximation) of these films that the growling and charismatic star has turned out for the Japanese straight-to-video market over the last decade and a half. Produced by Takashi Miike's production company Excellent Film and starring his frequent cohort Riki Takeuchi, Hard Boiled is a solid and effectively trashy yakuza yarn.
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