Screenwriter and Director: Takeshi Kitano
Music Director: Hisaishi Ryo
Producers: Masayuki Mori, Yasushi Zheue, Takio Yoshida
Assistant Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Main Actors: Takeshi Kitano (King Nishi), Kishimoto (Miyuki)
Osugi Ren (as Taisuke Horibe), Terashima Shin (Nakamura Yasushi),
Hakuryu (as Tojo Masaji), Watanabe Tetsu (as the boss of the junk station)
Screening time: 105 minutes
In 1997, he won the gold at the 54th Venice International Film Festival The Lion
's love for the film started with Hisaishi's music. Those who are familiar with Miyazaki Jun's animation should not be unfamiliar with his music, the kind of stretch and grandeur reminds me of "City in the Sky" again.
The story of the movie is not complicated. Kitano Takeshi himself plays a policeman with a bumpy fate. His daughter was killed a few years ago, and his wife has leukemia, for which he owes a huge sum of money to the triad usury. On his way to the hospital to see his wife, his colleague was shot dead by a gangster. He blamed himself deeply for this and resigned from the police job. In the end, he chose to rob the bank and escaped with his wife. Evading the underworld and the police on the way to escape, after killing a member of the underworld, he and his wife committed suicide by the sea in the face of an old colleague.
In fact, the plot is very simple, but I watched it twice to fully appreciate it. The structure of the film is very obscure. Takeshi Kitano uses flashbacks, which he is not good at, which makes the interspersed before and after the story extremely abrupt. Only by first understanding the general structure can we fully understand the inner details.
What attracts me the most in the movie, or what makes me sigh the most is the few paintings that appear. It is said to be the work of Kitano Takeshi when he was in a mental hospital. I have to sigh with emotion for the most casual combination of aesthetics, human nature and perverted plots made by the Japanese, which is often amazing.
I think the film itself may be trying to show that loneliness is at a loss, and loneliness cannot be saved. So we can only enjoy the last little bit of warmth.
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