Movie review for the day

Rico says it seemed like he'd never give up Never Give Up, the second Takakura Ken movie he's watched recently, following Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, but he finally finished it today and will happily send it back to Netflix.
Very Japanese, as in can't-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard (the curse of everyone having black hair, for one thing, even Richard Anderson, who has a tiny role as a Green Beret advisor), long and overly complex, and gory. (No sex, of course; that would be bad.) But it proves that, even when chased by multiple M-60 tanks and massed artillery, let alone hundreds of soldiers of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces armed with machine guns, they can't kill Takakura Ken, just a defenseless girl, Yoriko. (Spoiler alert: yes, Ken does get the bad guy in the helicopter, but a few minutes too late for the stupid girl, who just had to run out into the open...)
Fortunately, Rico has already scheduled The Yakuza from Netflix, which will, hopefully, wipe the memory of these two out of his brain...