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Even without subtitles, this is a wonderful movie, starring the incomparable Bunta
Sugawara.  The action is easy to follow.  I just hope one of our subtitlers will like
this movie enough to create English subs for us, because I would like to know what
Grandpa's pearls of wisdom were.

Nice, average family--mom, dad, one daughter and dad's mom--live a normal life until
the day news arrives that Grandpa will be moving in with them, upon his release from
a very long prison sentence.  Grandma, divorced from her Yakuza husband, decides it's
best to leave, and the rest of the family is a bit nervous about their future.

In walks Grandpa, wearing his traditional men's kimono and geta, and we soon realize through his actions and flashbacks, that Grandpa is an old-school "ninkyo" style Yakuza.  He still believes in honor and responsibility, and he begins to impart those values to his family and even to the bullies at his granddaughter Tamako's school.

His wisdom and kindness and strength are habit-forming, and Tamako quickly becomes 
attached to the old man.  Even grandmother revises her opinion a bit and learns to accept her ex-husband's determination to live honestly and within the law.

This film is quite memorable, and I recommend it highly to fans of Japanese movies.

And did I mention that Asano Tadanobu is in this movie, too?

Not the greatest rip, but it's all I could find, after much searching.  Quite watchable, nonetheless.

My grandfather, the yakuza slayer
By MARK SCHILLING

"The years may have taken away the wildness, but the charisma is still intact. "Watashi no Grandpa" may be little more than a Sugawara vehicle, but he holds the screen effortlessly every minute he is on. Perhaps the real parallel is not De Niro, who is now playing clownish parodies of his greatest roles, but Clint Eastwood, who has eased into old age on the screen with dignity and self-deprecating humor.

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Based on an award-winning novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, "Watashi no Grandpa" is Sugawara's first semiaction role in 12 years, since his turn as a boxing coach in Junji Sakamoto's "Ote (Checkmate)." Now pushing 70, he can still subdue the bad guys, without looking as though he'll need a respirator the moment the camera is turned off. He also plays well opposite newcomer Ishida as Tamako. Where some actors might turn on the smarmy, avuncular charm, Sugawara remains, well, Sugawara -- the ideal, cool granddad."

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