The prolific Takashi Miike directs this lengthy 2001 Japanese saga of an attempted yakuza gang takeover (like a corporate merger with black-tie meetings by day and bloody hits by night).
A far less outrageous film than Miike's cartoony bloodbath Ichi The Killer, Agitator still contains a brief, pointlessly repellent sexual assault near the start.
Though there are flashes of dark wit, punchy action, some well-judged flourishes and a sense of brooding fatalism, it all amounts to very little given the lack of story focus or sympathetic characters, with the one slightly touching (male) relationship truncated midway.