Former best friends Masayuki and Takuya take different paths in life when the woman they both love, Yuki, is raped. Takuya becomes a mob hitman and Masayuki becomes a doctor. When Takuya is betrayed by his boss and lynched Masayuki miraculously saves his life. However, when Takuya realizes his former boss is also a patient of Masayuki’s the two of them get caught up a string of violence and betrayal.

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As a mysterious organization begins killing off a group of swindlers who witness a kidnapping and one of them decides to get revenge. You can find the full trailer here.

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When a Yakuza boss is murdered, Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi) and his Yakuza brother (Kenichi Endo) go on a two-man rampage to hunt down the people responsible.

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I know the whole “suitcase full of cash”, double-cross caper flick has been done to death over the years—especially in Japanese cinema. It’s sort of a mainstay and at times these films can get so formulaic and tiring that they run the risk of turning people off to the genre forever. 30 Lies or So definitely falls into the formulaic category, but it’s done so well that it more than makes up for that one sin. Featuring an all-star cast and a truly clever script, this is probably the one caper flick of the past few years I would suggest above all others I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a whole lot of ‘em).

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