Kamikaze Club (1968)

Anecdotes

Blackmail Is My Life , also known as Blackmail Is My Business, is a 1968 Japanese crime film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

Production

Director Kinji Fukasaku and three writers wrote the film in a hotel in just one weekend. Although Fukasaku went unaccredited for his part in the writing. In the North American release's liner notes, Patrick Macias writes that Sadao Nakajima's 1966 film 893 Gurentai was an influence; with Fukasaku writing the role of Shun specifically for its actor Hiroki Matsukata.

Fukasaku originally shot the final death scene in Ginza himself, hidden in a car in order to capture real reactions from the public. But the footage lacked drama and intimacy, and the scene was re-shot with Hiroki Matsukata purposefully staggering towards the crowds to unsuccessfully entice a reaction.

John Berra writes that Fukasaku "takes his directorial inspiration from the French New Wave" and that the film's "third act was reportedly inspired by real-life real-estate swindles that involved Kakuei Tanaka, who was then the Finance Minister of Japan, and would later become the nation's Prime Minister, and the episodic structure of the film serves to illustrate how greedy even small-time operators were becoming in an era of economic growth." B…

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