The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Though it’s a series that has seen its day, this swan song should attract genre die-hards with its elegant visuals and some humorously imaginative murders which are the director’s trademark.
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Japan · 2017
1h 45m
Director Takeshi Kitano
Starring Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Ken Mitsuishi, Sansei Shiomi
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
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Former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer. When a minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the powerful Hanabishi crime family, igniting a power struggle that endangers Chang's life, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Though it’s a series that has seen its day, this swan song should attract genre die-hards with its elegant visuals and some humorously imaginative murders which are the director’s trademark.
It’s a testament to Kitano’s effortlessly sleek, inherently watchable filmmaking (he reteams with regular DP Katsumi Yanagijima and uses the atonal descending motif of composer Keiichi Suzuki’s score to good effect) that you’re just about kept in your seat throughout all the speechifying.
Screen International by Jonathan Romney
The narrative intricacy is daunting but, for viewers willing to keep track, the pleasure lies in the way that Kitano tracks the moves as they advance to an inexorably logical climax.
Outrage Coda is not a great film, nor an essential one, but it accomplishes what it sets out to with gallows humor and a deeply cine-literate style.
Three short films that glance at the imaginative aspects of Tokyo life.
A member of a triad is forced to grapple with his identity when his police brother learns about his work
The tricky jobs that no-one wants to do always end up in Otomo’s lap.
A sequel to the 2010 crime film Outrage focusing on a cop's attempt to weaken a powerful Yakuza organization.
or you will die!