The Bogus Policeman vs The City of Lost Souls
The Bogus Policeman has the higher audience score (8/10 against 6.2/10 for The City of Lost Souls). The Bogus Policeman is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 42m. The Bogus Policeman is the older of the two (1967 against 2000). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Bogus Policeman
The City of Lost Souls| The Bogus Policeman | The City of Lost Souls | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.0/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 1967 | 2000 |
| Length | 1h 31m | 1h 42m |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama | Action, Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Satsuo Yamamoto | Takashi Miike |
| Main cast | Shintarō Katsu, Shirō Ōsaka, Yūnosuke Itō, Michiko Sugata, Daisuke Katō | Ren Osugi, Teah, Michele Reis, Patricia Manterola, Mitsuhiro Oikawa |
Synopsis
The Bogus Policeman
Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that someone has run off with his gun and later uses it to kill. Then he breaks up a group of hoodlums attacking a young girl named Mieko, and the police, his former friends, deciding he has gone too…
The City of Lost Souls
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
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