Full Metal Yakuza is a 1997 Japanese action

Action film

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 and satire

Satire

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 film directed by Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike

is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

. It was written by Itaru Era and based on a story by Hiroki Yamaguchi.

Originally released in Japan's direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

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 market (V-Cinema

V-Cinema

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), the film has gained more popularity because of the reputation of its controversial director.

Plot

Aspiring yakuza

Yakuza

, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...

 Kensuke Hagane, played by Tsuyoshi Ujiki, is killed by gang violence. His corpse winds up in the hands of a scientist who manages to keep him alive by replacing much of his body with cyborg

Cyborg

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parts.

Hagane has super-human strength and the scientist even reverses his impotency by giving him robotic genitals. Kensuke then searches for those responsible to get revenge.