Martial arts sensation who is popularly know for his character “Mad Dog” in The Raid, Yayan Ruhian days ago has been a hot topic around film community as he will star in Takashi Miike’s upcoming yakuza vampire film called “Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld” or in Japanese translated as “Gokudou Daisensou”. Yayan Ruhian who is a master of the Indonesian fighting technique Silat will play an otaku character and also Yakuza member. While the film itself, “Yakuza Apocalypse” is being described as Miike’s return to his hardcore filmmaking roots. The Japanese director shot to fame on the international festival circuit with films including “Audition”, “Ichi the Killer”, “Visitor Q”, and “Dead or Alive”. This film will centres on a yakuza underling who discovers his boss is a vampire, only to get bitten himself before going up against a gang of deadly international assassins. Ruhian will play one of the main assassins, according to screendaily.com. For those of you who are willing to see entire film in Indonesia, please wait because it will screen first in Japan on June 20th. For more information about the “Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld”, feel free to visit Nikkatsu website here.
“Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld” tells a story about Akira (Hayato Ichihara) that admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but has never died. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treats him like an idiot, Akira can not even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. Akira becomes disappointed in the yakuza world, because it is not like what he say in the movies. Especially, in terms of loyalty and charity depicted of the yakuza. An assassin is then sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire. The film “Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld” is expected at some point this year, with a cast that includes Hayato Ichihara, Yayan Ruhian, Denden, Riko Narumi, Shô Aoyagi, Reiko Takashima, and Lily Frankie.