Animalistic Depravity: Takashi Miike's The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

Like most Asia Extreme filmmakers, Japanese director Takashi Miike is renowned for his depictions of stomach-turning violence. In The Mole Song – one of his many yakuza films – he couples these with an eccentric examination of morality and human nature amid social decay, writes Alicia Lewis.

Additional keywords: yakuza, police.