Boiling Point
In enfant terrible Takeshi Kitano’s explosive second feature film, Masaki (Yûrei Yanagi) is an unassuming gas station attendant and amateur baseball player for underdog team The Eagles. After he enrages a local yakuza, setting off a feud between the gangsters and his coach, Masaki heads to Okinawa on a haphazard quest for guns with his friend Kazuo (Dancan). There they are befriended by the uber-eccentric yakuza boss Uehara (played by Kitano), who initiates them into the strange and brutal world of organized crime.
Cast
- Takeshi Kitano
DVD Features
Okinawa Days: Takeshi's Second Debut featurette.
Original Boiling Point trailer.
Collector's Booklet, featuring film essay by Tom Vick, Asian Film Curator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries (The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art).
Sound: Dual Mono
Discs: 1
Blu-ray Features
Okinawa Days: Takeshi's Second Debut featurette.
Original Boiling Point trailer.
Collector's Booklet, featuring film essay by Tom Vick, Asian Film Curator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries (The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art).
Sound: Dual Mono
Discs: 1
- "A work of varied and strange miracles."
- "I can think of no working director who uses stillness as gracefully and effectively as Takeshi Kitano."
Awards & Recognition
Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival
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