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Boiling Point

1990 · 96 min

A deadpan, brooding drift through sudden violence and oddball comedy, leaving a quiet ache.

Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Genres: Crime, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Takeshi Kitano

Overview: Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

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Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Genres: Crime, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Takeshi Kitano

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: revenge
isolation
violence
betrayal
identity
Places: big city
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Action	4
Horror	2
Humour	4
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: crime, comedy, drama, action, thriller
Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Written by: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Takeshi Kitano, Guadalcanal Taka, Dankan, Makoto Ashikawa, Hisashi Igawa, Johnny Ohkura
Cinematography: Katsumi Yanagijima
Runtime: 96 min
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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