1998 · drama · crime · music
Blues Harp
Directed by Takashi Miike1h 47m1998
Ambitious Yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards' growing jealousy of Chuji.
Our read: Blues Harp (1998) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · crime · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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