Film
Fireworks
- 4:15PM
Takeshi “Beat” Kitano is one of Japan’s most distinctive voices; his idiosyncratic style combines eye-popping violence, deadpan humor, and disarming wellsprings of emotion. In his Venice prize-winning masterpiece, the actor-director intercuts meditative scenes of domestic calm with sudden explosions of operatic, artfully abstracted violence. This wrenching portrait of two men—a former detective (Kitano) who gets mixed up with the yakuza while caring for his dying wife, and his wheelchair-bound former partner—is a truly original existential action thriller.
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