11/19/2022 0 Comments Sleepless town 1080p![]() Yet, we soon find out that Azuma, as played and directed by Kitano Takeshi, is no Dirty Harry. This is not the polite, circumspect Japan, all right, but a society seething with ugly hostility toward one another. Later, a peaceful barge boat passing beneath a bridge is pelted by empty soda cans, thrown by a bunch of foul-mouthed pre-schoolers. He then proceeds to mercilessly beat up the boy, who begins to wail like a little child. The protagonist, Detective Azuma, drops in one of the teenager's comfy home, passes by the boy's befuddled mother, and goes up to the latter's room. The film opens with a horrifying sequence in which a homeless man is senselessly beaten to death by a group of bicycle-riding teenagers. The situation, in retrospect, was an intriguing one, as if Clint Eastwood was asked to direct Dirty Harry after Don Siegel dropped out, and he proceeded to make a moody, psychological thriller in the mold of Play Misty for Me, entirely undercutting Harry Callahan's sense of control and (frankly) fascistic tendencies (We could talk some other time about the parallel between Kitano and Eastwood, two iconoclastically right-wing superstars, who nonetheless had directed some brazenly "artistic" films that seem to undermine their own beloved public personas).Įven though Violent Cop certainly lives up to its English and Japanese (the literal translation of the Japanese title is something like "The Man, Known to be Violent" in the manner of a warning sign) titles, it is not entirely the film that North American viewers might expect, based on its reputation. After Fukasaku left the project citing a schedule conflict, Okuyama offered the director's chair to Kitano, who completely rewrote the screenplay as one of the conditions for accepting the responsibility. However, producer Okuyama Kazuyoshi apparently did not favor Fukasaku's approach, which, judging from the first draft written for him by screenwriter Nozawa Hisashi ( Sleepless Town 不夜城, The Frame 破線のマリス ), was very much in the social realist-exposé mode. Two years after the scandal and in the midst of the rebound, Kitano was cast in a lead role, as the title character of Dirty Harry-like Detective Azuma, in the present project, originally to be directed by Fukasaku Kinji (1930-2003, Graveyard of Honor 仁義の墓場, Battle Royale). SLEEPLESS TOWN 1080P MOVIELawrence (1983) and a vicious gay assassin in Ishii Takashi's GONIN (1995), among others- since at least 1980 (barring his youthful works as movie extras). SLEEPLESS TOWN 1080P TVHe has also been working steadily as a film and TV actor, taking non-comedic roles, some of which highly acclaimed- most notably, as a Korean-Japanese murderer Kim Hiro in a TV docudrama Kim's War, a brutish yet sensitive Imperial Army sergeant in Oshima Nagisa's Merry Christmas, Mr. Even though he was thought to have received a fatal blow to his career, Takeshi rebounded. In December 1986, fed up with the scandal mag Friday's relentless pursuit of his extra-marital affairs, Takeshi, leading a group of his comedy pupils known as his "troops ( gundan)," attacked journalists working for the mag, physically threatening them and trashing their office. ![]() Kaneko Jiro, which Kitano claims has never been officially dissolved. His comedian's moniker "Beat" Takeshi derives from the manzai duo's name "Two Beats," a partnership with "Beat" Kiyoshi a.k.a. Kitano, who has turned seventy this year (2017), has been a hugely successful comedian, best known for politically incorrect, some might say actively offensive, stand-up acts (or more precisely the Japanese version of it, manzai, similar to Abbott and Costello in the sense that the format requires two performers, a straight one and a dopey one ). V iolent Cop is "Beat" Kitano Takeshi's debut feature film. 望月正照 Music: Kume Daisaku 久米大作 CAST: Kitano "Beat" Takeshi (Azuma), Kishibe Ittoku 岸辺一徳 (Nito), Hakuryu 白竜 (Kiyohara), Ashikawa Makoto 芦川誠 (Kikuchi), Kawakami Maiko 川上麻衣子 (Akari), Terajima Susumu 寺島進 (Orida), Ozawa Kazuyoshi 小沢一義 (Ueda), Sakuma Tetsu 佐久間哲 (Katahira), Sano Shiro 佐野史郎 (New District Chief), Kawakami Ei 川上泳 (Hashizume), Hayami Kei 速水渓 (Nito's Secretary) ![]() 奥山和由 Production Design: Mochizuki Masateru. 1 hour 43 minutes, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Eastman Color 35mm, Stereo Sound System. A Shochiku-Fuji/Bandai Media Co-Production, 1989. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.VIOLENT COP その男, 凶暴につき. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. ![]() You can sell him anything except children’s organs. Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. ![]()
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