Film Movement: Beat Takeshi's Outrage Coda Heading to Blu-ray
Posted October 3, 2018 07:44 PM by Webmaster
Independent U.S. distributor Film Movement will bring to Blu-ray the third installment in Takeshi Kitano's Outrage Trilogy: Outrage Coda (2018), starring Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, and Tatsuo Nadaka. The release will be available for purchase on November 20.
Also on the same date, the distributor will release a box set with three earlier films staring Takeshi Kitano.
Synopsis: Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle among the top echelons of the Hanabishi. When eventually Chang's life is endangered, devoted yakuza Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
In his explosive directorial debut Japanese renaissance man-cum-comedian-extraordinaire Takeshi Beat Kitano plays vicious rogue homicide Detective Azuma who takes on a sadistic crime syndicate only to discover widespread internal corruption in the police force. Facing criminal charges for his unorthodox Dirty Harry type methods, Azuma finds himself caught in a web of betrayal and intrigue that sends him on a bloody trail of vengeance. But when his sister is kidnapped by a sadistic drug lord, Azuma's tactics escalate towards an apocalyptic climax.
Boiling Point
Ono Masahiko is an unlucky gas station attendant who belongs to a losing junior baseball team. When the local yakuza threaten and capture his coach, he and a friend get more than they bargained for when they travel to Okinawa seeking revenge. This is the second feature film from renowned action auteur Takeshi Beat Kitano.
Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
Former police officer Nishi feels responsible for the shattered lives of his loved ones. His partner Horibe has been crippled in a disastrous stakeout, a colleague is shot dead by the same villain, and his own wife has a terminal illness. In debt to a yakuza loanshark, Nishi conceives a bank robbery to provide for his partner, help the dead cop's widow, and take one last holiday throughout Japan with his wife and share a final taste of happiness. A highly original crime drama written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano.
Bonus Features include: Violent Cop 20-minute featurette, That Man Is Dangerous: The Birth of Takeshi Kitano; original Violent Cop trailer; new Violent Cop HD re-release trailer; Boiling Point 20-minute featurette, Okinawa Days: Takeshi's Second Debut; Original Boiling Point trailer; Hana-Bi Commentary by film writer for Rolling Stone magazine, David Fear; Hana-Bi Making-of featurette.
Package includes: Violent Cop and Boiling Point collector's booklets, featuring film essay by Tom Vick, the Asian film curator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries (The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art), cast and crew credits, Hana-Bi collector's booklet, featuring essay by film writer Jasper Sharp.