Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Mr. Vampire
You need to be a tough guy if you’re going to take on the undead.
Category: The Breakdown
Recaps, analysis, etc.
Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Satya
Everybody gets a chance in Indian gangster movie hit Satya.
Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Gokusen and Great Teacher Onizuka
Yankumi from Gokusen and Onizuka from Great Teacher Onizuka will beat some sense into your delinquent ass.
Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Rookies
Is it really that great to be a delinquent?
Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Election
Johnnie To doesn’t need guns to create mayhem and violence in Election.
Red as Blood, White as Snow: Colour in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
What is the colour of vengeance?
Small-Minded Places: Gokseong (The Wailing)
Parochial village mentality, rumours and superstition bleed together into the Lynchian Gokseong, a South Korean film that asks us to reconsider our beliefs.
Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Big atonements for big sins: is there really any sympathy for Lady Vengeance?
Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Ong Bak
The tough guy from the countryside will break your bones.
Tough Guys, Gangsters, and Delinquents in Asian Pop Culture: Battle Royale
Would you kill your best friend?