Feu tricolore
2026 · 2m
Directed by Ruka Yamamoto, Louis Thang Delaunay
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Two yakuza bound by blood see their fate overturned when one of them, Miki, falls in love and tries to leave the yakuza path — a story of loyalty, love and guilt, up to a final betrayal where honour prevails over humanity.
Picked by Margot
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Two minutes to dismantle the yakuza code from the inside—love as a Trojan horse in a world built on blood oaths—but it plays the betrayal beat too straight, missing the chance to truly invert the genre's DNA.
Yamamoto and Delaunay situate themselves squarely in the lineage of Japanese crime cinema while respecting the compressed form; the formal restraint required to move from intimacy to tragedy in 120 seconds, without a wasted frame, is exactly the kind of disciplined craft that rewards a second viewing.
The decision to end on honour winning over humanity—to let the code reassert itself—is a sound choice architecturally, but the film doesn't quite locate the single moment of performance or edit that makes us *feel* the weight of that choice rather than understand it.