Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! 1963 123movies

Watch: 探偵事務所２３ くたばれ悪党ども 1963 123movies, Full Movie Online – Seijun Suzuki’s DETECTIVE BUREAU 2-3: GO TO HELL BASTARDS follows police detective Tajima (Shishido), who, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a bloodbath. Suzuki transforms a colorful potboiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed..
Plot: Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can’t.
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Yet another Suzuku film that stars a human squirrel!
I have no idea why, but Japanese actor Jô Shishido apparently had plastic surgery in order to give him squirrel-like cheeks (you know–filled with acorns)!! This is according to IMDb and I have wondered why he would do this and why the director would keep starring this odd man in his films. I assume Suzuki just had some sort of cheek fetish! Regardless, it’s pretty weird.

The film begins with some Yakuza (Japanese mobsters) being viciously gunned down during an illegal transaction of guns. Who did this is unknown–and a private detective (Mr. Squirrel) offers to solve the crime if the cops pay him and give him a new identity. Apparently there is another guy who is a mobster and part-time chipmunk, so they give him fake i.d. for that guy and agree to the rest of his terms. I didn’t realize that cops accepted freelance commissions! The film, quite honestly, then gets a little confusing–something I noticed in other Suzuki films. But, the style is so cool and the story so full of neat little twists, that I didn’t terribly mind. I am not sure why, but they cast a deliberately bad actress who apparently talks through her nose and dresses like a man as Squirrel-boy’s assistant. Why?! I guess it’s just another weird touch in a generally weird film. Another thing you do need to say about this film is that it has fantastic music–very 1960s and very cool. It’s sort of like James Bond music, cool jazz and Beach movie music combined! And in addition, there are some very kooky music numbers in nightclubs that you just have to see. Weird and fun.

Detective Bureau goes to hell.
In the middle of viewing Arrow’s two box sets dedicated to the film maker,I decided to check what other Seijun Suzuki titles had come out on disc. To my surprise,I found Arrow has put out a separate disc for a film which comes in the middle of the run in their sets! Leading to me joining Bureau.

View on the film:

Equalling the presentations in the sets, Arrow present a terrific transfer, with the colours on the print kept sharp,and the soundtrack remaining clean.

Descending into hell with a opening dialogue free shoot out between two gangs, directing auteur Seijun Suzuki reunites with his regular cinematographer of the era Shigeyoshi Mine and enters hell by making a huge progression in Suzuki’s major recurring motif, that melts the hard edges of Film Noir into the ultra- stylisation of surrealist Pop-Art.

Hanging at the back of smoke-filled corridors covered in moody Art-Deco grey and blacks that Tajima becomes surrounded in, Suzuki twirls the dark corridors and thick trench coats into starling colour,splashing swift whip-pans and rugged zoom-ins onto the sharp reds darted across the screen as the gang wars are given a high kick, with delightfully unexpected Musical numbers at hip Jazz clubs (a major recurring location in Suzuki’s credits.)

Keeping Tajima somewhat out of the loop from the police force by being a private detective who visits the station to listen in on tips from the cops, Iwao Yamazaki’s adaptation of Haruhiko Oyabu’s novel takes Tajima into the post WW-II Noir black market underworld of Japan with a wickedly biting comedic cynicism, as Tajima plays a sleight of hand on all the gang leaders who have their eyes on taking Manabe down, a move Tajima commits not for morals, but the hope of wiggling cash and a new identity out of the hands tied behind their backs police.

Gliding on Harumi Ibe’s silky Jazz score, Jo Shishido gives a great performance as Tajima, who Shishido holds with a cocky swagger of a devil may care loner who goes to hell.

Other Information:

Original Language ja
Runtime 1 hr 28 min (88 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Action, Crime
Director Seijun Suzuki
Writer Iwao Yamazaki, Haruhiko Ôyabu
Actors Jô Shishido, Tamio Kawaji, Reiko Sasamori
Country Japan
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.45 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,413 m (Japan)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Nikkatsuscope
Printed Film Format 35 mm