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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

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Takeshi Kitano, aka Beat Takeshi, writes, directs and stars in this beautiful lament of a film. Kitano stars as a retired cop who turns to crime to raise the money to take his...
more...dying wife on one last trip. Low on dialogue, HANA-BI is a meditation on guilt, loyalty, and death.





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Fireworks
Review of Hana-Bi DVD by NeilG1

Advantages: Beautifully Shot, Poetic, Emotive
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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 ... Read review

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19.09.2005
True Masterpiece
Review of Hana-Bi DVD by sghosh

Advantages: Possibly best ever Kitano movie
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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 ... Read review

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Arigato gomzaimasu !
Review of Hana-Bi DVD by malenkylitso

Advantages: great acting and cinematoraphy
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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 ... Read review

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