Production Year: 1997 - Action/Adventure - Director: 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano - Original Language: Japanese - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:'Beat' Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima
Takeshi Kitano has been a mainstay of the Japanese entertainment industry for more than twenty years. He first entered the world of directing with 1991's Violent Cop, a film that was originally intended to be directed by Yakuza movie legend Kinji Fukasaki. However, Fukusaki became ill whilst filming
and so the helm was passed over to star "Beat" Takeshi. From that day on, Kitano has continued to carve out a niche in world cinema with his original ...
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Advantages: Possibly best ever Kitano movie Disadvantages: None whatsoever
Films previous to this made by Kitano included Violent Cop, Sonatine, and Boiling Point, and if you've seen those 3, you'll notice the difference here. This film was made after his motorcycle accident which left him with a facial twitch which is evident, but one can see the change in style brought about as a result of it.
Takeshi's character, Nishi, is a cop whose wife is terminally ill, and whose daughter died earlier. As he tries to deal with ...
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Advantages: great acting and cinematoraphy Disadvantages: none
As a recent fan of Takeshi Kitano, one of Japan's finest film makers I bought this after seeing a few of his other films such as Sonantine & Violent Cop.
'Beat' Takeshi as he's widely known in his native Japan, is a comedian, actor, film maker and painter (many of his paintings appear in his films including this one).
Hana-Bi (the word for "fireworks" in Japanese), follows Nishi a tired, world weary cop in debt to the Yakuza. To add to his ...
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