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Blood and Bones

2004 · 144 min

A relentless, suffocating immersion into a tyrant's life, watching cruelty corrode a family across decades.

Overview
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • violence
  • power
  • greed
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour1
Realism8
Romance2
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yōichi Sai
Written by
Wishing Chong, Yōichi Sai
Starring
Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Kyoka Suzuki, Joe Odagiri, Yutaka Matsushige, Tomoko Tabata, Mari Hamada, Atsushi Ito
Music
Taro Iwashiro
Cinematography
Takeshi Hamada
Runtime
144 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese, Korean

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