3-4 x jûgatsu (1990)

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   Mhrass

   I think it's one of kitano's best 10 years 5 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Takeshi Kitano's follow-up to Violent Cop was Boiling Point (nowhere close to the Japanese title, which is a baseball score), a rather confounding film, with its sleepwalking protagonist and over-long baseball scenes. Masaki is terrible at baseball, and perhaps even worse at being a gas station attendant. When he insults a yakuza - and in the 90s, the modern Japanese gangster was largely portrayed as an overgrown bully - he's in for some trouble and in trying to secure a gun for protection, meets Takeshi's psychopathic character, hangs out, violent stuff happens. While I wasn't sure what movie I was watching anymore, this was still where the narrative started coming into focus. I admit to finding the back and fourth between young Masaki and the yakuza subplots hard to follow in the first half of the film. The confusion may or may not be justified by the elliptical ending, I'm not sure yet. In the final analysis, Boiling Point creates a number of memorable images that have me recommending it, but I think this is the kind of movie you need to watch more than once to properly appreciate. 8 months 1 week ago
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   daisyaday

   http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi2228159001/ 11 years 12 months ago

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