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The Crow goes to Tokyo, and the Yakuza are NOT ready for this goth reckoning.

Crow: Sleepless Angels (1999)

neon-noir fever dreamYakuza grindhouse90s direct-to-video energy

Overview

Crime

Yakuza Underworld Murder Story

Japanese
Content warning

Standout Aspects

Practical Effects

Gloriously cheap practical effects that aged like expired sake.

Production

Shot-on-location Tokyo grit that Hollywood couldn't fake.

Best for:Solo: 2AM curiosity about obscure Crow franchise entries.·Streaming: When you've exhausted every other Yakuza movie on the internet.
Heads up:Violence: Yakuza-tier body count with 90s exploitation flair.·Gore: Crow resurrection makeup that walks the line of camp.
R

Director

Ryutaro Kajino

ReleasedDec 25, 1999
Runtime1h 40m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensityhigh
Tonedark
Feelheavy
Gingaeizou

Top Cast

Fumie Nakajima

Fumie Nakajima

Madoka Ozawa

Madoka Ozawa

Koh Takasugi

Koh Takasugi

Hirotaro Honda

Hirotaro Honda

Hozumi Goda

Hozumi Goda

Masaaki Daimon

Masaaki Daimon

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Cultural

This was part of a bizarre 90s trend where Japan remade American cult properties with local casts—see also: Japanese Spider-Man. The Crow's mythos actually translates eerily well to onryō vengeance spirits.

Trivia

Director Ryutaro Kajino mostly worked in pink films and V-cinema; this was his biggest budget and he spent it ALL on neon tubes and fake blood. The TMDB 0.0 rating exists because maybe six people on Earth have seen it.

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