Review of The Most Dangerous Game

The Most Dangerous Game (Japan, 1978) directed by Tôru Murakawa Hitman Narumi (Yûsaku Matsuda) is hired to rescue one of a series of kidnapped CEO's in this gritty, urban crime movie (the first of three), involving yakuza, crooked cops, and corrupt businessmen. There's a STYLISHLY realistic atmosphere to it, as opposed to an actual one, but it looks cool, and 1970's Japan is one of my more favorite places to see a movie filmed. Keiko Tasaka plays the sexy girlfriend of one of the bad guys, who gets smacked around by our 'hero', before he rapes her! She of course ends up 'liking it' and then refuses to leave him alone. She spends the rest of the movie hounding him. In fact, it seemed weird to me how often he gets beaten up, except when he's roughing up women or weak people, but of course when he starts shooting - then pretty much everyone goes down. As 70's Japanese Anti-heroes go, he's got the cool shades, can take a beating, is a little quirky, can take or leave the most beautiful women and still get the job done at the end of the day .