Autoreiji (2010)

The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate.

Director:

Takeshi Kitano

Writer:

Takeshi Kitano (screenplay)

Stars:

Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shîna, Ryo Kase

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Takeshi Kitano	...	Ôtomo (as Beat Takeshi)
Kippei Shîna	...	Mizuno
Ryo Kase	...	Ishihara (as Ryô Kase)
Fumiyo Kohinata	...	Kataoka
Sôichirô Kitamura	...	Kan'nai
Tadashi Sakata	...	Okazaki
Kenji Morinaga	...	Abe
Masaki Miura	...	Sannokai thug
Tokio Emoto	...	Emoto
Jun'ichi Nitta	...	Sannokai thug
Toshiyuki Watarai
Masashi Iwadera
Yûjirô Komura
Kenji Ohara	...	Sannokai thug
Toshimichi Tasaki

Storyline

The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai clan holds sway in the face of constant betrayal and ever-changing allegiances. The Sanmo-kai chairman learns that his henchman Ikemoto has struck an alliance with the drug-dealing Murase family, and is not best pleased, to say the least. The ensuing retaliation triggers an orgy of killings, territorial invasions and score settling while law enforcement officers are too corrupt to intervene.

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Plot Keywords:

yakuza | japan | japanese | false evidence | betrayal | 

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Taglines:

one wrong move and it's all out war

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese English

Release Date:

12 June 2010 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Outrage

Filming Locations:

Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bandai Visual Company,Office Kitano,Omnibus Japan

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Following a string of unconventional, commercially unappealing films, Takeshi Kitano engineered this film specifically as commercially appealing, going back to the genre which brought him the most success, and going as far as imagining the death scenes first and writing a story around them later.

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Goofs

At the bathhouse killing sequence, Ôtomo enters the steam room and sees four guys. However, the camera captures him killing three men and omits the fourth guy on the right corner, which never reappears in between shots during the shooting and also when the dead bodies appear in another sequence.

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Quotes

Ikemoto: H-h-hold on a minute...
[panting]
Ikemoto: I'll reverse the banishment.
Ôtomo: Huh?
Ikemoto: I'll reverse the banishment.
Ôtomo: You banish me, then you reverse it?
[explodes]
Ôtomo: How many fucking tongues do you have?
Ikemoto: Huh?
Ôtomo: Are you deaf? How many do you have?
[...]

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Connections

Followed by Outrage Coda (2017)

User Reviews

High potential lacks conviction

A very well-executed movie in terms of directing and acting, and it's a decent watch for anyone who enjoys a good mafia movie, or a yakuza movie as the case may be. However, there is nothing new on display. It blends in with the masses and masses of movies in its genre.

Throughout the entire movie, I kept feeling a sense of lack. This lack was a lack of sympathy you feel for these characters, and the lack of understanding for the system on display. You don't understand what's going on until about an hour into the movie, and by then it's a little too late to care. There's a little too much shooting first, and too few questions asked. I believe Kitano really tried to write a movie that could stand among classics like Scarface and the Godfather in terms of epics, but fell short.

However, I would say the movie is worth a watch, if only to see what the movie could've been.