Yamamoto Mataichiro is the man producing Takashi Miike’s Crows Zero films – which are about high school gang wars. Somewhere he said:
We made ‘Crows Zero’ in the spirit of the Godfather films
Wait, is that serious? OK, there are gangsters in those films, but then?
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To add a bit of context to that quote: Yamamoto co-produced Paul Schrader’s “Mishima” with Coppola, who told him that “The Godfather” succeeded not because it was about a violent mafia power struggle, but because it was told from the perspective of a family. That stuck with him, and he thinks that sub-themes such as the relationship between Genji and his father as well as Katagiri’s fate in adult society elevate “Crows: Zero” beyond being just another delinquent fight film. I’d tend to disagree.
Miike’s Fudoh had strong family themes too, but you can’t really say this elevated it beyond what is essentially an insane manga movie.