Family (2 Stars)

I've never really appreciated Japanese gangster films, which are a genre in themselves. While the mob bosses have the same cool nature as their American equivalents, the killing is more violent and exaggerated, as in the example of a mobster using a tank to rescue his wife from a rival boss. "Family" is an interesting film, the first of a pair of films, but I can't relate to it, and I find the extremely loud volume of the music in the action scenes (in comparison to the volume of the dialog) grating.