This is in the reading of Ichi as a movie about masculinity, which maybe (I haven't seen it in going on ten years probably) isn't immediately obvious. Maybe Visitor Q, although that has too broad of a scope. Some words on those movies, to give context on the one under consideration but also because fucking Miike is such a piece of shit and he's the best in spite of what I just said, if there's any movie of his that the Crows films are closest to thematically I'd have to reach for Ichi the Killer. I don't think either of Miike's Crows ever quite achieve the brilliance of the DoA movies, but they aren't incredibly far off. They were also both directed by Takashi Miike, closer to his Dead or Alive style than, say, his Ichi or Audition or Gozu styles. They both fucking ruled I watched them in preparation for the third, having never heard of them before.
The first two - Crows Zero and Crows Zero 2 - were live action adaptations of a high school yakuza-adjacent fighting manga. Crows : Explode is the third in a series.
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