Friday, October 04, 2013
Beat it
Time for a bunch of Takeshi (Beat) Kitano movies.Tender to tough.
Tough and tougher today
They either love or hate this guy.
I am in the fan club.
He makes a film not a movie. While the genré is intact, there is an artistic bent to them, small touches which make them quite enjoyable.
In this film a Yakeza big boss gets squeezed out of his territory and flees to LA where he takes up with his brother who is running a small time gang dealing dope.
He inspires the small gang to expand and shows them how. They get very big.
Then they take on the mafia and get very small again.
There are a lot of severed little fingers, a decapitation and more but I don't want you to get this film and be shocked at the violence. Take heed.
Me? I like the guy's style. He is wonderful in the lead role. His nickname is from the time he was part of a comedy team. Funny how that turned out.
This could be viewed as a martial arts film but there is no martial and very little art to it. These are tough guys taking on the tougher and pulling it off.
A definite 4 as I would gladly see it again.
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