Outrage: Way of the Yakuza

同族同士でごちゃごちゃ言って殺し合っている間にグローバルなChangみたいなところに警察含めて国ごと飼われている日本の構造をヤクザ映画を通じてよく描いているなあと思いました。北野監督やっぱりさすがですね。

man this movie was all over the place but if you keep up its great

The highest praise I can give a crime film is it makes you think of the Italian Mafia.This film does that and more with the double-dealing and back-stabbing.Starts out slow but makes you wonder what is exactly happening.First-rate production values and all the violence is necessary lol.I was looking for something off-beat and this delivered.

Outrage is a story about manipulation and deception. Jun Kunimura gets in trouble with his Yakuza boss and has to cover up his business dealings by starting a war with his partner. That’s the job of his underling Takeshi Kitano. The dilemma is whether Kitano will be played the fool in this game?There are some great gangster moments in Outrage like the cutting of fingers, the throwing of insults, and some really bloody bits as well. Ultimately it’s about how the Yakuza talk about honor and family but are a bunch of backstabbers who will do anything to each other if it means more profits. It’s great! Outrage is one of my favorite Yakuza movies and I’ve seen a lot from old traditional ones to new school releases. This one really stands out.

"When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge. From action legend Takeshi Kitano."I was expecting much more of an action movie, this is much more drama with violence than action flick. That being said, it still gets a full 5 from me! Would recommend to friends, so all you people I don't know should watch it too!

If you like mafia movies not matter the culture, this movie series is one of the best I have ever seen and enjoyed. Even if you don't no anything about this you almost feel like this is exactly how their world works, it's a great movie

Loyalty is not anything, it's everything!

If you want to see people die or get beat up in some creative ways, this is the movie for you.

Takeshi Kitano's straight-faced black comedy Outrage lives up to its title with the odd moment of extreme violence involving chopsticks, tongues and a bit of improvised dentistry that makes Marathon Man look like a walk in the park, but it's very much Kitano playing it safe on familiar turf, as relentlessly ordinary as it is sporadically violent. Worse, it doesn't have the ability to surprise or subvert expectations that made his reputation with gems like  Sonatine [DVD ]. Instead its stone-faced star, probably the only man to make Buster Keaton look over emotive, goes through the motions of this rise and fall saga that sees his Yakuza lieutenant involved in an escalating series of incidents that turns an attempt by his boss to make a show of contrition by apparently punishing a rival family he's made an unauthorised alliance with turn into a full scale gang war while the city's Yakuza chairman plays everybody off against each other to do a bit of housecleaning of potential rivals.Kitano doesn't glamorise his Yakuza: they're untrustworthy - no sooner is an alliance made than it's broken - ruthless and engaged in a job without much of a future and only the odd moment of fun (mostly at the expense of an African ambassador they blackmail into turning his embassy into a casino). The trouble is that while it's occasionally outrageous and offers the odd subtle bit of corporate satire, it isn't especially funny for a black comedy while as a crime drama it's all very, very familiar. Some have compared it to his badly received  Brother [DVD] [2001 ], but where that felt like a film he really wanted to make, this feels like a business plan. It's solidly made, well cast and watchable enough if you're not squeamish, but it's like Kitano's just going through the motions on autopilot to get a safe commercial hit after more anarchic projects like  Takeshis' [DVD ] and  Glory To The Filmmaker (Import Dvd) (2012) Varios  didn't find much of an audience. In that it's successful, spawning a sequel, Beyond Outrage, but it's certainly not one of his most memorable films by a long shot.Kitano's first scope film, the UK Blu-ray offers an okay but unexceptional 2.35:1 transfer with burned-in unremoveable English subtitles. The only extras are the US trailer and a rather badly transferred 18 minute collection of interviews with the supporting cast that has a surprisingly large number of digital glitches. Sonatine [DVDBrother [DVD] [2001Takeshis' [DVDGlory To The Filmmaker (Import Dvd) (2012) Varios

I went in to this film looking for Yakuza thrills and spills. I got them, and then some.Some people have said it isn't up to Kitano's usual standard, but to my knowledge it has all the right elements: extreme violence, a reasonably complex story and some genuinely laugh out loud moments. I'll admit there isn't much of a heart to it - it wasn't very emotionally involving like 'Hana-bi' or 'Zatoichi', but that hole is filled with a dangerous mixture of tension and blood. So why expect anything more?Kitano himself is totally cool, as usual. The rest of the cast also did a brilliant job.It isn't pretty, and it won't please everyone, but it's worth a look if you like gangster films, or just enjoy Kitano's acting roles.

Great films, but bought this in error, only had German subtitles! Oops, returned with no problems!

The best mafia movie ever.

Gave up on this after about 15 minutes. Over-acted and implausible. Pity.