Japan’s king of action comedy, Yugo Sakamoto, made a rare venture into nonviolence with this year’s female friendship comedy “Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks,” which featured just a single, well-executed dropkick.
The break from the genre grind seems to have done this former wunderkind good. “Flame Union,” Sakamoto’s latest film and the third in a series about the “legendary hitman Kunioka,” has the familiar gags, gunplay and martial arts heroics, but the director has reined in his tendency, seen in his hit “Baby Assassins” seri
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