Here at Nameless Gangsters it's not going to be just about the usual old triad and yakuza movies. I'm going to be using it as a tool to explore other asian nation's hard boiled cinema. One that it a large blank spot for me is India. Cranking up the imdb listings for best Indian gangster films, I found this, sourced it and slapped it on. Made at the turn of the millennium and starring burly actor Sanjay Dutt this takes the usual Godfather and Scarface riffs and ploughs them through some Bombay spiced cinema. It avoids the usual rags to riches tale and switches instead to a tale of rags and money bags, leading to addiction, murder, corruption and madness. Dutt plays a big doofus called Ragha who would rather just hang around with his pals on rooftops than study hard to get a white collar job. He ends up convincing his father to lend him money for a snack van which he and his cronies start running. After tussling with some local mobsters, Ragha and his best pal Shorty, find ...

  Violent Streets 1974 Japan Director: Hideo Gosha Nathan's Take As Kansai Yakuza of the Western alliance make inroads into Ginza, encroaching on the now 'straight' Togiku Group's territory, retired yakuza Egawa (Noboru Ando) is slowly pulled into the conflict, dealing with his old group trying to take his bar, his pissed off, but still loyal family members, proxy assassins and his brother Yazaki (Akira Kobayashi), this seemingly complex web of backstabbing and politicking will have only one outcome for a man who was pushed aside, but still capable of great violence. Hideo Gosha's Violent Streets is one of the most revered, and recognised Yakuza films of the 1970's, and for good reason. A ferocious exercise of style, form and content blended near perfectly by Gosha's competent hand and performed by a cast of Toei veterans at the top of their game, that deservedly cements itself in the annals of the Jitsuroku genre. Gosha's deft ability to combine charact...

Asian gangster films?  Swaggering slices of mayhem from Japan, Korea and Hong Kong, along with other nations. Guys in loud shirts, big knives, slapped faces, noodles and bullet ridden bloody assassinations. Two film asian gangster fans. Two takes on the one film . That's it. Let's go!