Fudoh: The New Generation AKA Gokudô sengokushi: Fudô 4K 1996

Fudoh: The New Generation is a cult Japanese crime action film from 1996, directed by the renowned Takashi Miike and based on Hitoshi Tanimura’s unfinished manga. The film was one of Miike’s first works to attract widespread international attention and set new standards for absurd violence, dark humor, and the breaking of social taboos in the yakuza genre.

The plot revolves around Riki Fudo, a straight-A high school student leading a double life. As a child, he witnessed his own father, a yakuza boss, brutally murder his older brother to settle a business dispute with a powerful clan from Osaka. Driven by a thirst for revenge, Riki secretly forms his own criminal gang consisting of underage hitmen.

Riki’s gang includes the most unexpected characters: schoolchildren with firearms, a giant bodyguard, and a hermaphrodite stripper who shoots poisonous darts from her vagina. Launching a bloody campaign to eliminate local crime bosses, Ricky spreads panic throughout the criminal underworld of Kyushu. This attracts the attention of legendary boss Daigen Noma and forces Riki’s father to send a former government agent to the school under the guise of a new physical education teacher, whose methods prove to be even more brutal.