Sonatine Comments

  • Micaela 2023-09-22 15:05:55

    2.5. During the viewing process, I was thinking whether this film was included in the top ten of the "Film Manual" that year. Check it out, there really is. Takeshi Kitano's performance has always been unbelievable. The narration is basically simplified, and there are some clips with the director's personal strong self-complex, such as sumo wrestling on the...

  • Charlotte 2023-09-18 12:12:45

    Full of literary violence. A death full of freshness. There is no relative, only absolute. To live is to die for that glorious and beautiful death. The philosophy of violence, the art of restraint, the obsession of death, the thinking of the still. This little sonata by Takeshi Kitano is a perfect combination of artistry and...

  • Michele 2023-09-09 06:07:17

    Death under the camera lens is a long process of thinking back to the meaning of life Kitano said that death is because I am tired of playing with life, but in the end it all flows to the...

  • Winnifred 2023-08-06 22:05:12

    If that's the case, I'm going to be a gangster too, and I'm going to be an uncle's...

  • Sam 2023-08-01 17:10:29

    Takeshi Kitano tells violent stories in a calm camera, which makes the audience feel cool and nervous. The rhythm of this piece is too good, and the game play at the beach echoes the final suicide by drinking bullets. Innocence is only temporary... Rather than being ended by others, you should choose to end it yourself. Five points for the...

  • Olin 2023-07-29 06:03:54

    There is a problem with the subtitle translation, and it is not very pleasant to watch. Sure enough, it is difficult for Kitano Takeshi to have a good death in his own film. And Kitano Takeshi, who is not paralyzed, looks weird. Sonata doesn't feel as good to me as Big Brother and...

  • Pearl 2023-06-28 18:29:21

    Terashima Shin is really a super big supporting role in Kitano's film, but I still like his face and his...

  • Jana 2023-06-24 13:45:42

    Compared with what I imagined, I still don't think it's very enjoyable. The violent scenes are too unremarkable to Kitano Takeshi, but these gangsters were really moved when they were idiots on the...

  • Johnathon 2023-06-02 08:37:01

    Takeshi Kitano is the most innocent...

  • Deon 2023-05-08 04:34:58

    2020/2/24The music is fishy. Rough shadows, broken aesthetics, chaos and nothingness, flowers and death, everything should be there. Dare to kill, naturally dare to commit suicide; kill so many people, just because of fear; and if you are always afraid, you want to die quickly. Come to think of it, this does what religion can't: death is finally a logical inference. This is the heart of philosophy. This kind of love, of course to be loved. Of course, the one who fell in love at this time was als

Extended Reading

Sonatine quotes

  • Maeda: Fancy something to drink?

    Bald Yakuza: No. My stomach still hurts from when you stabbed me.

  • Aniki Murakawa: Indecent exposure is fun.

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Director: Takeshi Kitano

Language: Japanese Release date: April 10, 1998