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Pure Japanese is a 2022 Japanese action film directed by Daishi Matsunaga and starring Dean Fujioka. This is also Fujioka's first created and produced film. Daisuke Tateishi (Fujioka), an eccentric man with no social skills and a devotion to Japanese culture, is now in charge of sound effects for ninja shows, despite his outstanding physical abilities. One day he saves a high school girl named Ayumi. She and her grandfather Ryuzo are being harassed by yakuza gangsters. When Ayumi asks for his help, Tateishi releases the violent impulses he has kept sealed away due to past trauma.