Crush the Strong, Help the Weak

Antiheroes and black sheep abound in this collection of rough-and-ready films from southeast and east Asia concerning rebellious outsiders bound together by their keenly developed sense of class consciousness and their outside-the-law existence, its ragtag cast of renegade characters including Shinjuku triads clashing with yakuza for control of Tokyo, Korean desperados on the run from the Imperial Japanese Army, small-time hoodlums bumming around in c. 1960 Taipei, and even Technicolor Thai cowboys. With no initiation past the price of admission and peak-performance films by Takashi Miike, Edward Yang, Park Chan-wook, Stephen Chow, among others, membership in this gang definitely has its privileges.