BA_Harrison One thing you can't accuse director Takashi Miike of is predictability: I was surprised enough to learn that some of the Yakuza in this film are vampires, but I would never have guessed that Yakuza Apocalypse would feature a man in a frog costume doing karate. Or that the 'man' inside the costume actually has a frog head (complete with Kermit style neck frill). Or that pulling a plaster off the frog/man's belly button would result in a giant man in a frog costume emerging from beneath the Earth's crust — a fire-breathing Frogzilla that stomps on buildings.On the Miike scale of Asian weirdness, Yakuza Apocalypse is right at the top, up there with The Happiness of the Katakuris and Gozu, but in terms of entertainment value I would put it somewhere between those two films: not as joyously absurd as Katakuris but nowhere near as tedious as Gozu. For those who decide to give this one a whirl, be prepared for such weird and wondrous sights as a Kappa goblin, a woman whose brain melts (and leaks out of her ears), a shiny truck armed with mini-guns, a garden of animated children, and one of the strangest (and drawn out) final fight scenes I've ever seen as Hayato Ichihara and The Raid's Yayan Ruhian proceed to repeatedly punch each other squarely in the face until one of them falls over.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for IMDb.

juanmuscle Talk about creative writing 101 zillion trillion!!! All out effort to truly entertain the good ol' fashion Super Creative Writing all the way and beyond, I was transfigured , transported into a transcendent being of out space proportions! I cannot believe this flix! You are going to be like 'No Way!' in a total fun way as you are led astray into the land of infinite imagination! Loved every second of it... I mean green puppet monsters and vampires about to duel for the right to rule earth! No way! I just said cause I felt it whilst watching this really coolx flix, though I don't think watching is what one does in a super creative experience such as this one! Never ever underestimate the Asian translation invasion in no way ever rule them out or anything! They are the greatest writers of all! I don't know if producers just give the artists a plop of money and walk away as it should be but Hollywood can and will never compare until these ungainly ugly lazy no good wastrel gross avarice artless producers walk away and let the wonder of art engender creative art! Oh yes would it be so nice to really have scripts like this precipitating from all parts of the world , this would would never ever be boring again! Ennui just died forever! This is better than any drug you can take and it really doesn't hurt so much when the unsuspecting pessimistic brain cells bounce back , it will be all good cause all of you and those stuffy brain cells will always love super creative writing coming out of the Asian Invasion, it is all good! Loving every second of it!

Daniel Rodrigues This movie is a poorly attempt to create a stylish vampire/mob movie. It has some stupid elements, in an other poorly attempt to create comedy, perhaps trying to appeal to more than one type of viewers... To bad that didn't work. I was hoping, that, when I saw Yayan Ruhian in the cast, that the movie would have been more competent in the action scenes... even though the excellent work of Yayan Ruhian, the movie went down the drain very fast...Takeshi Miike was always connected to excellent film-making, but this is awful and boring... Some once told me that From Dusk Till Dawn 2 was stupid, because there was no logic, on having vampires steal a bank... I enjoyed that one... but this one is a mess... not worth watching it.

grandmastersik At moments during this film, fans will marvel at Miike's nonchalant excellence... at others, they will either be scratching their heads wondering WTF they're watching, or taking it at face value and enjoying it for what it is.But what is this film? For me, it was a satire of the absurdities that go on in Japanese comics and, for the most part, I quite enjoyed it. Come on, there's that kick-arse villain from The Raid, a cool Yakuza lead and Bruce Lee in a frog costume - what's not to enjoy?I have to admit, I really didn't understand why the kid went after the female Yakuza and not the Priest-type dude, who quickly got relegated to a sub-par, may as well forget he exists villain, but most won't likely understand ANY of this film, so it's difficult to recommend it to the anyone I don't personally know as digging this kind of off-beat weirdness.If you give it a go, I hope that you laugh as hard as I did at the frog's karate chop, which earned the film and extra star simply because I haven't laughed so hard for a long time.This really is pretty much as love it/hate it as they come... only, the "love" is always going to be replaced by the lesser word of "enjoy".