The filmmaker winks to the audience are quite obvious, with the film calling even more attention to its self-seriousness and homoeroticism, while also eschewing the superfluous elements like having teachers at the school. Miike does change things up slightly rather than wall-to-wall action, Crows Zero II serves it up slowly before building to a massive end blowout with the students advancing up the high school floors like players advancing through levels in a video game. While all that is present in Crows Zero II, it just doesn't feel that new anymore. Rather than go towards all-out comedy or super melodrama, Takashi Miike found the right balance of elements, mixing commercial gloss with low brow comedy, occasional satire, and a playful sense of self. When Crows Zero debuted, it presented the teen gang brawling film in a dynamic way that transcended its tried-and-true genre status. Will Genji be able to unite Suzuran before Hosen destroys them? Kawanishi's freedom upsets the delicate truce between Suzuran's and Hosen's current students, and Suzuran's current state of disarray makes them ripe for a takeover. Things get worse when Suzuran alumni Sho Kawanishi (Shinnosuke Abe) is released from juvie, where he was incarcerated after murdering the gang leader of rival school Hosen. However, Genji's position atop Suzuran's food chain doesn't make him the absolute leader, with continued resistance from underclassmen, Serizawa's bunch and also Rindaman (Motoki Fukami), Suzuran's hulking lone wolf. His gang GPS is now dominant at super-tough Suzuran High, having defeated their rivals, the Serizawa Army, led by all-around badass Tamao Serizawa (Takayuki Yamada). In the wake of Crows Zero, life hasn't gotten any easier for Genji Takaya (Shun Oguri). Why then, does Crows Zero II feel like it's not as much fun as the first one?
Hell, they've even added some new beautiful guys to the mix. Crows Zero II refuses to fix what wasn't broken the same beautiful guys are back, and the same stylish violence is present and accounted for. The first film was a slam dunk for both young guys and girls, thanks to its stylish violence and too-beautiful guys, whose fisticuffs were usually tempered by an ardent, near passionate admiration for their foes. At least, that's one possible conclusion when considering the popularity of Takashi Miike's Crows Zero movies. Korea and Taiwan) What is it?Įverybody likes a good gang fight, especially when it involves beautiful boys beating the crap out of each other while exchanging homoerotic looks. Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashi 三池崇史 Miike Takashiģ - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. It's all-out gang war all over again, but Genji's fighting on two fronts trying to unite a divided Suzuran against Hosen.Ĭrows Zero II (DVD) (Thailand Version) Crows Zero II (DVD) (泰國版) Crows Zero II (DVD) (泰国版) クローズZERO 2 Crows Zero II (DVD) (Thailand Version)Ĭrows Zero 2 Crows Zero 2 Crows Zero 2 Crows Zero 2 Crows Zero 2 Hosen's leader Taiga (Kaneko Nobuaki) sends out the boys to get revenge, and Genji unknowingly throws the first punch, breaking the tenuous ceasefire between the two schools. Suzuran's old rivalry with Hosen Academy flares up again when a former Suzuran student (Abe Shinnosuke) who knifed a Hosen student to death two years ago is released from jail. Genji (Oguri Shun) is the new king of Suzuran High after beating Serizawa (Yamada Takayuki), but the school is more fragmented than ever. Some new delinquents have been added to the fighting fray including Miura Haruma ( Gokusen), Abe Shinnosuke ( The Sword of Alexander), and Kaneko Nobuaki ( Be-Bop High School). His chief rival in the first film, Yamada Takayuki, is back, as well as Takaoka Sosuke, Kiritani Kenta, Daito Shunsuke, Yabe Kyosuke, Kamiji Yusuke, Flame's Izaki Yusuke and Izaki Hisato, and sometimes flame Kuroki Meisa.
Oguri Shun returns as Takaya Genji, whom we last saw fighting his way up the pecking order of gang-infested Suzuran High in hopes of uniting the school under his rule. Picking up the story right after the first film, the highly anticipated blockbuster sequel Crows Zero II throws audiences right back into the hyper-stylized world of high school gang violence. Miike Takashi hit box office gold in 2007 with the high school brawler Crows Zero based on Takahashi Hiroshi's best-selling manga.
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