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Sympathy for the Underdog 1971 (original trailer)

In the political turmoil of the late sixties, the patriarchal quality of the societal field came under fire and the nostalgic idealization of these values within yakuza films lost their appeal. Instead of seducing the Japanese other with a reflection of an impossible idealized past, yakuza films started to explore the brute societal reality of the post-war societal field. Within this shift from heroism to anti-heroism, Kinji Fukasaku’s Sympathy For The Underdog stands out as one of the transitional masterpieces, confronting the spectator, in a shocking way, with the inherent destructive finality of subscribing to the Ninkyo ideal. To put it differently, in the Japanese post-war societal field - as the dust of the second world war slowly settles, only those yakuza who anchor themselves in the mundane Other by radically subscribing to the capitalistic logic can survive.