Nicholas Phillips Little Riki Fudoh (Shosuke Tanihara) plays catch with his older brother, who is also ordering a hit by phone, in the well-manicured backyard of their father's Kobe estate. Meanwhile, a gap-toothed old gaijin, and his swimming goggles-wearing Japanese partner, pour bullet after bullet through bathroom stall doors into Nohma family drug dealers. In retaliation, Daigen Nohma orders and receives the assassins' heads. At Nioh Temple (aka. "Dope Temple"), father Iwao Fudoh and his allied gang bosses hold a tense meeting. That night, Iwao beheads Riki's older brother in his sleep in hope of averting a full-scale gang war.Ten years pass. Riki reminds his father in front of the family shrine of the anniversary of his brother's death. Iwao is meeting the mayor and couldn't care less, but Riki has already set his plans in motion. Old Ryuji Komoku, one of Iwao's four fellow executives, returns to his car from morning batting practice to find two children playing the crane game for prizes. As he berates them for skipping school, they pull out guns and shoot him and his bodyguards to death. That night, Akira Jikoku, another executive, is traveling handcuffed in the back of a squad car with two detectives. As they stop at a gas station, he smugly assures them that the arrest is futile. Mika, a perky girl dressed as an attendant, delivers them "complimentary coffee." The coffee is poisoned and Akira dies vomiting up great gouts of blood. She strips off the disguise and, in her sailor fuku, quickly walks off.The next day, a giant of a man beats up a yakuza pimp, instead of paying for the hooker he injured with his "eggplant dick," and rides his motorcycle to school. Mika-the-murderous- schoolgirl sharpens a dart in English class. An abusive English teacher meets Riki after class and begs him to accept partial repayment for loaned drugs. Riki throws the money on the floor and tells his teacher to commit suicide. Flanked by young yakuza, Riki dominates nightlife in the Nakasu district and impresses the giant. Mika works nights at a strip club popping balloons with her vagina-powered blowgun. The male voice of club techno repeatedly enjoins, "Just do that thing." She fires a dart that flies in one ear and out the other, pinning a bit of boss Tenkai Zocho's brain to wall.As the following day dawns, a second schoolgirl assassin posing as a holy water delivery girl empties her MAC10 (with silencer and extended magazine) on Bishamon Tobatsu and his underlings. Back at school, the giant confronts Riki and takes a menstrual fluid coated blow dart to the hand. He joins up. Riki shows his new friend their training ground at the railroad tracks, where little boys play soccer with the English teacher's head. Under cover of night, Riki and his gang wipe out the surviving clan leaders at Dope Temple. Iwao begins working covertly with Nohma to kill his son. When Riki's two little boys botch the assassination of Nohma, who turns them into a pair of loosely tied garbage bags. Iwao has his half-Korean bastard son, Akihiro Gondo, infiltrate the school as a new teacher.The giant's bike explodes when he turns the key in the ignition, hospitalizing him. Gondo disarms the gun-toting schoolgirl and fatally defenestrates her. A female substitute teacher reveals to the depressed genital circus performer that she used to be the girlfriend of Riki's older brother. Mika reveals that she is actually a hermaphrodite. Having commiserated, they copulate. The next night, while Mika performs, Gondo sets off an acid trap rigged to the ceiling, hospitalizing and permanently disfiguring her. Riki enters Gondo's apartment and learns the truth, but Gondo nearly kills him. Riki is saved by his brother's ex-girlfriend and her laser-sighted Desert Eagle magnum handgun. When Iwao tries to decapitate Riki, who was pretending to sleep, Riki grabs the blade and declares, "The era of a child sacrificing himself for a parent is over." Iwao pulls a revolver and lands all six bullets on Riki's chest, but Riki was wearing body armor. Riki then beheads his father. Now in charge of what's left of the Fudoh family, Riki ignites the gang war with Nohma that his brother tried to spark.

EVOL666 Another knock-out by Takashi Miike!!! This one is a doozy... Pre-teen assassins, a chick that can shoot darts out of her p***y, hermaphrodite hit men (hitwomen?), and more bullets and blood than you can shake a samurai sword at. FUDOH is action packed and grabs you from the very first scene. If you are into extreme Asian action, then this should be right up your alley. If your idea of extreme action is Jean-Claude Van Damme and Steven Segal, then you have no idea what you're in for. If you haven't already, also check out ICHI THE KILLER - another Miike masterpiece, both are incredible. I really can't say which film I like better. - Highly recommended 9 1/2 out of 10.

movieman_kev 10 years after Fudoh senior has to kill one of his sons after his disrespects the Yakuza, his other son plots to avenge his brother.He organizes his own band of teenage killers to topple his father's organization. Filled to the brim with Takashi Miike's now trademark bizarre characters and over-the-top violence, this is a fun little flick, if a tad repetitive in parts. Not among Miike's best, but certainly up there. It was followed by two straight to video sequels neither of which had Miike's involvement and are worse off because of it.Eye Candy:Both Marie Jinno and Miho Nomoto shows tits and ass My Grade: B- DVD Extras: I didn't get the recent special edition so, just Trailers for "Wild Criminal", "Score", and "Blood". Not even a menu screen

Infofreak For the most part Takeshi Miike's movies have been getting weirder and weirder, so if you've already experienced the likes of 'Ichi The Killer' and 'Visitor Q' his earlier movies (e.g. 'Rainy Dog') might seem a bit tame and too "normal". Not so 'Fudoh: The New Generation'! Eight years old, which is a lifetime in Miike's world (60 movies since 1991!), it's still as outrageous as ever. This was the movie that started Miike's reputation as being one of the most wildest and inventive directors in the world. The bare bones of the plot makes it sound like countless other yakuza movies, but Miike continually shocks and subverts his audience. This is one movie you just have to see to believe! Shosuke Tanihara plays Riki Fudoh, teenage son of crime boss Iwao Fudoh (Tôru Minegishi). Fudoh senior sacrificed Riki's older brother Ryu when Riki was a child. Now that Riki is older he plans an audacious plan of revenge, using his own gang of child assassins and sexy schoolgirls, one of whom dispatches her victims via a blow gun she fires from her vagina. 'Fudoh' will have you giggling insanely throughout. Just how does Miike get away with it?! It's also one of the most entertaining and exciting action movies I've ever seen, up there with Miller's 'Mad Max 2', Hill's 'The Driver', Peckinpah's 'The Getaway', Rodriguez's 'El Mariachi' and Ishii's 'The Black Angel'. Most Hollywood action movies these days send me to sleep. I tried watching 'The Fast And The Furious' the other night for example and gave up after becoming bored to tears. Tarantino's mind blowing 'Kill Bill: Vol 1' is the one recent notable exception. Is it any wonder that it was heavily inspired by asian cinema both old and new, including the work of Takashi Miike? I think not. If you enjoyed 'Kill Bill: Vol 1' check out Miike's 'Fudoh' and 'Ichi' and 'Dead Or Alive' trilogy, and Kinji Fukasaku's amazing 'Battle Royale', and you'll immediately see the energy and black humour that Tarantino is currently drawing upon. 'Fudoh: The New Generation' is an instant classic. Fans of action, crime, or exploitation movies will eat it up!