Shinjuku Triad Society

Shinjuku Triad Society
Shinjuku Triad Society film poster
Directed by	Takashi Miike
Produced by	Tetsuya Ikeda Toshiki Kimura Ken Takeuchi Tsutomu Tsuchikawa
Written by	Ichirô Fujita
Starring	Kippei Shiina Tomorowo Taguchi Takeshi Caesar Ren Osugi
Music by	Atorie Shira
Cinematography	Naosuke Imaizumi
Edited by	Yasushi Shimamura
Release date	1995
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Shinjuku Triad Society (Shinjuku kuroshakai: Chaina mafia sensô) is a 1995 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike. The film is one of the earliest examples of Miike's use of extreme violence and unusual characterization, two aspects he would become notorious for. The film is part of the Black Triad trilogy and is followed by Rainy Dog and Ley Lines.

The film recounts the interactions of a homosexual triad group with a police officer as well as opposing yakuza organizations. When the younger brother to a renegade police officer becomes the lawyer to the triad group, an argument between the two leads to the downfall of the organization.

Sight & Sound noted the film was similar to the gangster films of Kinji Fukasaku, while noting that "scenes such as the one where sodomy is used as a police interrogation technique bear Miike's unmistakable signature."Time Out London stated that "Even viewers hardened to the perversities which tend to crop up in Japanese exploitation genres may find themselves rubbing their eyes at some of the images and incidents in Miike's extremist thriller" and that "Miike's stylish, gleeful direction establishes him as the most distinctive new 'voice' in the genre since Rokuro Mochizuki."

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