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Thursday, 21 January 2010

Hana-Bi (1997)

Posted on 05:28 by uthpa
Essential Viewing
Japan
Feature Film
Original Title: はなび
Writer/Director: Kitano Takeshi
Cinematographer: Yamamoto Hideo
Composer: Hisaishi Jō
Cast: Beat Takeshi, Kishimoto Kayoko, Osugi Ren, Terajima Susumu, Watanabe Tetsu, Hakuryu

A laconic former police detective, whose wife is slowly dying of cancer in a hospice, and who is seriously indebted to a Yakuza boss, resorts to drastic measures in order to solve his problems; whilst a friend and former colleague of his, who has become wheelchair bound after being struck by a hitman’s bullet, approaches his problems in a decidedly different manner, in Kitano’s painfully violent, poetically beautiful, and terribly moving film. Iain.Stott
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