The Lady in the Black Dress Full Movie

The Lady in a Black Dress

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A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a shoji. Tamura who lives on the second floor of the store for the time being the son who wants to work here. A few days later, Tamura finds a handgun from Yuko's baggage and holds a suspicion ....

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Kuroi doresu no onna

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The poster made it seem like some sort of haunted house horror flick, but it was actually a neo-noir yakuza movie filled with neon lights and jazz music. The first half gave off memorable character introductions one after another and still had time for gritty fight scenes, but the second half started to weigh the film down with constant plot twists that felt tacked on. This led to an outright ridiculous ending which felt like the director said "alright, let's just go off-the-wall crazy for no discernible reason, regardless of how off-putting it may seem to the viewer."

If anything, just create a compilation of all the bar scenes cause those are the highlights for the suave vibe alone.
Yes, but what about Lady in a Red Dress and it's an hour and a half of Tomoyo Harada dancing?
"Are you a gangster?"

Hidden Japanese neo-noir that is bursting with style.

A lonesome bar owner gets in deep while housing a women on the run and a man that every Yakuza member in Japan wants at the edge of their blade.

Slick, smooth and a mood. The Lady in a Black Dress is visually pleasing with its hazy Tokyo by day and neon covered nights that shine in the heavy weight of stylish jazz music, cigarette smoke and lonely bars.

Wishing I could live inside of this more and more the longer I think about it.
A nostalgic, intellectualized tribute to American noir that employs the cosmetics and archetypes to a T, yet the back-half bogs itself down in forced narrative symmetries and meretricious character payoffs and never fully recovers. Sai maintains a cool ambivalence throughout that helps reinforce the hypnotic dive-bar trance, making the film come off like a jazzy homage to the textures of noir. He aims for the Walter Hill school of mythic characterizations and heightened neon-grit, but the complications that ensue expand the narrative in ways that betray the kind of ruthless linearity that lets these stories really sing. Tomoyo Harada has got some truly rad dance moves.
I watched this film purely because I really like the title song by Dip In The Pool which tends to find itself on many 80s J-Pop playlists. Maybe that's not a good reason for committing 100 valuable minutes of my life to an obscure Japanese neo-noir, but it's actually a very enjoyable watch. Okay the fight scenes are a bit unrealistic and the car chase is slightly disjointed, but in general it's a nice looking film with some great shots e.g. the motorway at the beginning, the body on the seawall and the setting sun by the phone box. Also the dimly-lit bar scenes are very atmospheric, although why you would put that much water in whisky is beyond me.
Gasped/screamed at the opening song, an ambient jpop jam I listen to regularly on a playlist I turn up when I wanna feel like I'm in a dream from another time. Good start!

Basically a movie has all my votes if it has shots of Tokyo from the 80s, yakuza, dope interiors, neon nights and pastel days.

Some forced weird pacing at parts with drama shoehorned in but maybe I lost track of plot cuz my brain was busy shrieking at all the interiors I was mourning that most likely have been bulldozed after the bubble popped.
Good opening with a movie. First half was someway enjoyable because of the filled with neon lights Tokyo, the soundtrack and, of course, Tomoyo Harada. After that it's pure plot.
If fujika asuka tells me to kill someone I would
fairly rote neo-noir augmented by some great magic hour photography and an utterly dreamy recurring Dip In The Pool theme song