RAINY DOG (1997) Slick, comparitively subdued, wondrously melancholy Takashi Miike noir gangster tale, the second in the Triad Society Trilogy, about a Japanese hitman (Sho Aikawa)working for a triad boss in a seedy Taipei where it rains almost perpetually. Handed custody of his young son by his fleeing wife, he goes about his nasty business as if the kid's not even there, leaving him to root through garbage for food and sleep in alleys. A prostitute, on whom he tries to dump the kid, eventually joins him and, for a while, an ersatz family begins to form, but the brother of a slain gangster comes looking for revenge. I give it a 9.
Review of Rainy Dog
