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Director:

Takeshi Kitano

Writer:

Hisashi Nozawa (writer)
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Release Date:

12 August 1989 (Japan) more

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller more

Plot:

Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results... more | add synopsis

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination more

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A closer look at South Korean Cinema at Fantasia
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Takeshi Kitano ... Azuma (as Beat Takeshi)
Maiko Kawakami ... Akari
Makoto Ashikawa ... Kikuchi
Shirô Sano ... Yoshinari
Sei Hiraizumi ... Iwaki (as Shigeru Hiraizumi)
Mikiko Otonashi ... Iwaki's Wife
Hakuryu ... Kiyohiro
Ittoku Kishibe ... Nito
Ken Yoshizawa ... Shinkai
Hiroyuki Katsube ... Deputy Police Chief Higuchi
Noboru Hamada ... Chief Detective Araki
Yuuki Kawai ... Detective Honma
Ritsuko Amano ... Honma's Fiancee
Tarô Ishida ... Detective Tashiro
Katsuki Muramatsu ... Deputy Commissioner Anan
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Violent Cop (International: English title) (USA)
Warning, This Man Is Wild
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Runtime:

103 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono


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The original script was a comedy. Kitano was then very concerned about the audience recognizing his acting skills and he didn't feel that a comedy would allow him to act nor allow the audience to abstract from his comic TV personality. So he rewrote the script, removed all comedy and turned it into a drama. more

Quotes:

[Kiyohiro has been served a search warrant.]
Kiyohiro: Dope? Where?
[Azuma pulls out an envelope and a syringe.]
Azuma: Right here.
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References A Clockwork Orange (1971) more

Soundtrack:

Gnossienne No.1 more


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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
The Trapped Knife, 29 June 2001
Author: robotman-1 from fredericksburg, va



Kitano cripples the senses and jars the nerves in his films. This is a movie about a two-fisted cop whose blunt face and cliff's edge personality drive every scene, even the ones Kitano is not in. Kitano's character is not reacting to a violent world, but infecting it with his own brand of violence. The "violent cop" has lost his hope, therefore he fears nothing.

Kitano as director gives us a real world of humor and interaction. Events happen, there's no plot. Every scene has this pulse that is raging, the characters even when still seem kinetic as sprinters. Punches, kicks, and bullets explode bodies. Kitano's character clashes with a psychotic hit man, but it is Kitano's cop who is out of control, unstoppable in his desire to inflict justice as he sees it.

There's scenes which cannot be forgotten: Kitano's cop

interrogates a punk drug dealer in a club rest room. These two actors go through a scene in which Kitano slaps this man over and over until he talks. The difference is that Kitano is really slapping this actor, and slapping living hell out of him. Cringe-worthy, and up there with one of the other scenes that illustrates what a hard man Kitano is: stabbed with a knife, Kitano grips the blade as it comes out of him, clinching his fist down on it so he cannot be stabbed again. Blood pours out from between his fingers, he cannot let it go because his fist and knife are one; Kitano understands the brutality of the fight, the reality of two men trying to kill each other, no quips, no words, no yells or curses, just blood and rage; cut to the bone, it's the way the whole film makes you feel.

As far as the recent BROTHER is concerned, it makes perfect sense for Kitano to use similar themes seen in his earlier films. BROTHER is Kitano's first real attack on American audiences. They, en mass, haven't seen his stuff, and if Kitano's going over old ground, he's doing it in HIS style. Better a retread Kitano than most of Hollywood's slobbering star-cramped idiocy.

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