On the surface, his movie seems like a simple hard boiled police/yakuza film. The more you get into it, the more we realized that its actually a little spin on the genre... instead focussing on how these hard boiled detective deal with drama. As such, the film is a weird mix of violence and emotional subtlety... and this mix fits very well. Sometimes, the movie can be pure violence, sometimes its sad, sometimes its beautiful... some other times its even random and funny.
I saw some people on IMDB saying that the movie does have enough dialogue. It is true that japanese films contains waaaay less spoken lines then american or european films. This movie pushes this trend to the extreme and some main characters barely says any word. Personally, I liked it and I think it made the film more emotional... However, it may rebute some people... so you are warned.
Anyway, I think this is a great film from Kitano and I loved everything about it.
I saw some people on IMDB saying that the movie does have enough dialogue. It is true that japanese films contains waaaay less spoken lines then american or european films. This movie pushes this trend to the extreme and some main characters barely says any word. Personally, I liked it and I think it made the film more emotional... However, it may rebute some people... so you are warned.
Anyway, I think this is a great film from Kitano and I loved everything about it.
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