Rainy Dog

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Rainy Dog
Rainy Dog PAL DVD cover
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Produced by	Tetsuya Ikeda Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Written by	Seigo Inoue
Starring	Sho Aikawa
Music by	Kôji Endô
Editing by	Yasushi Shimamura
Release date(s)	1997
Running time	95 min.
Language	Japanese
IMDb profile

Rainy Dog (Gokudô kuroshakai) is a Japanese movie directed by Takashi Miike. Although the movie contains a fair amount of controversial material, the overall theme of the movie is place on the unlikely relationships formed between a hitman and his girlfriend / hooker and son.

This movie is the second part of the Black Triad trilogy.

[edit] Plot

The film begins with the main character, Yuuji, being fired from his yakuza syndicate. Soon he finds work for another boss solely as a pay-per-hit assassin, killing members of other syndicates. His life starts to become more complicated when an ex-girlfriend or hooker drops his son off at his house. His son, who is dumb, begins to follow him, where the boy witnesses his father assassinate a man. Afterwards the boy follows his father to a whorehouse where he waits outside for his father, eats food from the garbage and befriends a puppy who is chained in the alley. The prostitute and Yuuji develop a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. Things get much more complicated when the last mark's brother, a lawyer, approaches his brother's yakuza syndicate to request heading the revenge attack on Yuuji. The mark's brother discovers the relationship between the hooker and Yuuji and augment her website to offer a reward for anyone with information about her. Yuuji, girlfriend, are on the way out of town when Yuuji calls his new boss to get a passport. Yuuji's new boss, who knows about the reward and calls the mark's brother, despite the fact that he hired Yuuji. Yuuji can tell by the sound of his bosses voice that he has been betrayed so he leaves their current location and seek refuge at a transgendered homosexual male's apartment who is a friend of the prostitute. While browsing her website on her friend's computer, the prostitute discovers the reward, informs Yuuji and the two begin to wonder where the prostitutes friend went to. They spot the friend out of the window, waiting nervously downstairs and realize she has turned them in for money. Yuuji sends his girlfriend and son together to a train station and gets revenge on his boss. Meanwhile his son and girlfriend are captured by the lawyer (the mark's brother) and Yuuji's girlfriend is killed. Yuuji faces off with the lawyer, but gets knocked out due to a distraction by Yuuji's son, after pumping a few bullets into Yuuji, which makes him appear dead. As Yuuji and his son rejoice, an old acqaintance, a low quality and comical hitman, appears and kills Yuuji. After the hitman leaves, the lawyer reawakens and gives Yuuji's son a speech, telling him if Yuuji's son wanted to seek revenge in the future, that he would be ready.

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Sho Aikawa	Yuuji
Sau Leung "Blacky" Ko	Whorehouse Proprietor
Lianmei Chen
Ming-Jun Gao
Jianqin He
Tomorowo Taguchi