Ok, folks, this is my last Ishii upload. Totsugeki! Hakata gurentai is his first feature and last 8mm film. Haven't watched it yet myself, but from the looks of it, this is very much reminescent of eighties and nineties v-cinema, sort of like early Miike (only made in 1978). There is considerably more dialogue than in his earlier films, but it doesn't seem too complicated plotwise
黑帮少年由堕落走向死亡的瞬间，极度枯燥的生活、无处宣泄的精力、失去依靠和与其他组织抗衡的无奈，幼稚、危险却又懦弱，前半段的铺垫真实的令人忘却是电影的情节。战后的迷惘和躁动，借由一个戴着法西斯头盔骑着单车、到书店购买军事期刊的弱智少年展现。孩子们追逐他的俯视画面、无因由的闹市街头飙车，让人惊叹石井岳龙对镜头的驾驭能力。
其后的退役军人失枪事件，导致企图金盘洗手刚出狱黑帮大佬的仇杀，生命的轨迹似乎从来由不得自己掌控。抢劫银行的暴戾、劫持校巴的生死时速、幼儿园中的困兽斗、为报丧子之仇企图冲破警戒线的黑帮，在朋克音乐的背景下高速运转；而逃出圣天后死于误会的枪口下，宿命、那个时代的痛全部在镜头下赤裸裸的呈现。