Sonatine

Japan 1993, 93 minutes
Dir. Takeshi Kitano
In Japanese with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Comedy, Cult / Gangsters

Feat. Takeshi Kitano, Ayo Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe

Aroview: Those familiar with 'Beat' Takeshi's films will know what to expect from this latest elegy to gangster violence. His personal demons manifest in striking, dispassionate, ambiguous form as his disenfranchised Yakuza boss is assigned to a remote isle to dispel rival gang tensions.

NZ International Film Festival 1993

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3 stars (Good Enough) Again taking the dual-role of director/lead, Beat Takeshi is daring and darkly funny (at times bordering on insane). Cut of the same cloth as 'Violent Cop' and 'Boiling Point', Sonatine is violent and memorable. ~Tom H