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The Outrage

Original title: Autoreiji
  • 20102010
  • RR
  • 1h 49m
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
14K
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Takeshi Kitano in The Outrage (2010)
The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a gang in line, a job which gets passed on to a long-suffering subordinate.
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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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
14K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Takeshi Kitano
  • Writer
    • Takeshi Kitano(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Takeshi Kitano
    • Kippei Shîna
    • Ryô Kase
Top credits
  • Director
    • Takeshi Kitano
  • Writer
    • Takeshi Kitano(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Takeshi Kitano
    • Kippei Shîna
    • Ryô Kase
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 60User reviews
    • 121Critic reviews
    • 67Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination

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    Trailer 1:54
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    Takeshi Kitano in The Outrage (2010)
    Takeshi Kitano and Kippei Shîna in The Outrage (2010)
    Takeshi Kitano, Jun Kunimura, and Tetta Sugimoto in The Outrage (2010)
    Hideo Nakano and Takashi Tsukamoto in The Outrage (2010)
    Takeshi Kitano and Ryô Kase in The Outrage (2010)
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    Takeshi Kitano
    Takeshi Kitano
    • Ôtomo
    • (as Beat Takeshi)
    Kippei Shîna
    Kippei Shîna
    • Mizuno
    Ryô Kase
    Ryô Kase
    • Ishihara
    Fumiyo Kohinata
    Fumiyo Kohinata
    • Kataoka
    Sôichirô Kitamura
    • Kan'nai
    Tadashi Sakata
    • Okazaki
    Kenji Morinaga
    • Abe
    Masaki Miura
    • Sannokai thug
    Tokio Emoto
    Tokio Emoto
    • Emoto
    Jun'ichi Nitta
    • Sannokai thug
    Toshiyuki Watarai
    Masashi Iwadera
    Yûjirô Komura
    Kenji Ohara
    • Sannokai thug
    Toshimichi Tasaki
    Takamitsu Nonaka
    Yasuto Kosuda
    Yukio Tsukamoto
    • Director
      • Takeshi Kitano
    • Writer
      • Takeshi Kitano(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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?

      Ikemoto: I've only got one.

      Ôtomo: Only one? *Two* or *three* is more like it, you fucking prick!

      Ikemoto: I'm telling you I've only got one tongue!

      Ôtomo: [a little calmer] Open your mouth.

      [louder]

      Ôtomo: Stick out your tongue!

      Ikemoto: [beat] Huh?

      Ôtomo: [barking] Stick out your tongue!

      [Ikemoto reveals reluctantly a bit of his tongue]

      Ôtomo: MORE!

      [Ikemoto does]

      Ôtomo: STICK IT OUT, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!

      [Ikemoto sticks out his entire tongue, then Otomo slams his jaw so violently that Ikemoto chokes on his own tongue; Otomo eventually kills him]

    • Connections
      Featured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #2.18 (2011)

    User reviews60

    Review
    Top review
    10/10
    Outrageous!
    Kitano, who has left the personal, lyrical and poetic quality behind, now emerges as a filmmaker reaching out to the mainstream. Outrage is the start of his second Yakuza trilogy (Outrage 2 has been announced for next year), and plays out on a Shakespearean stage with the epic quality of Dostoyevsky. Unlike his first trilogy (Violent Cop, Boiling Point and Sonatine), this movie focuses on the politics of the yakuza rather than an intimate portrait of a compromised individual.

    There are random acts of extreme violence that continue to propel the plot forward. Kitano, playing the underboss Otomo, is a similar role to his other characters in yakuza movies which portray out of control individuals that have a minor standing yet have the last word at the end of the play. Rather than focusing on the beauty of mobsters hiding out on the beach, this is a gritty, urban drama much in the tradition of Johnnie To's triad movies (Election) that has dominated the organized crime dramas over the past decade.

    In showing the criminality of the human mind, it evokes Mario Bava's study in Rabid Dogs, similarly Kitano is building a Brechtian inspired drama about the harsh existential life. Kitano continues to explain and further define his worldview through the character of a doomed nihilist anti-hero. In all of Kitano's yakuza character studies, there is no hope, or redemption, only a further plunge into an ugly existence of lies and deceit, where only an act of violence can bring about change.

    As Kitano remarked publicly about his making of Outrage, he is giving the people what they want - no pretense of artistic embellishments, but rather blunt, cruel acts of violence of the professional criminal devoid of any romanticism. One scene in particular evokes The Godfather, but that is where the similarities end - there is nothing glamorous about the yakuza lifestyle.

    In this film, Kitano assumes the duties as in his other yakuza films as that of star, director, editor and writer. The vision is completely his own. The pacing is deliberately slow, showing that the life of a criminal is not particularly exciting but rather mundane as that of any other type of businessman, mostly involving allegiances of convenience and acts of betrayal. There is no illumination or redemption here, no course of action will lead to a better life, such is the basic tenet of a nihilist.

    There is little flourish in the direction such as to immerse the viewer into the dark, banal existence of its characters. The one scene that brings a sense of relief with sunlight streaming through the trees on a backstreet, is colored darkly by seemingly innocent activity that is actually quite sinister for the individuals involved.

    This is a welcome and long overdue return for Kitano to the yakuza genre which he abandoned a decade ago for a trilogy of felliniesque introspective autobiographical films. There are no experimental sequences or absurdist imagery as in his previous films. As a consequence, Kitano is no longer held back with meditative musings, instead giving the viewer an unfiltered take on the corruption, lies, and phony existence of the individual in an artificial society - that any person in any social situation is merely part of an inauthentic social contract.

    In many ways, the lack of artistic pretense in Outrage only serves to further embolden the bleak message that Kitano has for us. This is not a film for the weak of heart, nor is it one for the impatient, it is a slow revelation revealing the emptiness of life and the pointlessness of all action.
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    • joeydoa
    • Dec 20, 2010

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 12, 2010 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • Japanese
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Outrage
    • Filming locations
      • Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
    • Production companies
      • Bandai Visual Company
      • Office Kitano
      • Omnibus Japan
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $44,745
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,518
      • Dec 4, 2011
    • Gross worldwide
      • $8,457,741
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 49 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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