Shinjuku Triad Society

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Shinjuku Triad Society
Shinjuku Triad Society PAL DVD cover
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Produced by	Tetsuya Ikeda Toshiki Kimura Ken Takeuchi Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Written by	Ichirô Fujita
Music by	Atorie Shira
Cinematography	Naosuke Imaizumi
Editing by	Yasushi Shimamura
Release date(s)	1995
Running time	100 min.
Language	Japanese

Shinjuku Triad Society (Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô) is a Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike. The film is one of the earliest examples of Miike's use of extreme violence and unusual characterization, two aspects he would become notorious for. The film is part of the Black Triad trilogy.

[edit] Plot

The film is based around the interactions of a homosexual yakuza group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the yakuza group, an argument between the two lead to the downfall of the organization.