I was surprised to run into Outrage in a fantasy-horror festival, yet there were several gore scenes that clearly qualified the movie for it.
Whether you like Takeshi Kitano or not, he sure is good in depicting the yakuza. In the long run this ability got him typecast and he tried to brake the mold in several movies between Brother (2000) and Outrage. For some reason he decided not to pursue his artistic ambition for a while and focus again on Japanese underworld. And this is in no way a step back.
The power struggle between the old boss and his right hand is exquisitely depicted. Without it Outrage would be just another crime thriller with extreme scenes of violence.
6.8Plot summary
The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai clan holds sway in the face of constant betrayal and ever-changing allegiances. The Sanmo-kai chairman learns that his henchman Ikemoto has struck an alliance with the drug-dealing Murase family, and is not best pleased, to say the least. The ensuing retaliation triggers an orgy of killings, territorial invasions and score settling while law enforcement officers are too corrupt to intervene.
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Takeshi Kitano as Ôtomo
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Japanese 2.0
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Takeshi Kitano as a yakuza again
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Beat Takeshi's back with a vengeance...
OUTRAGE marks the first Beat Takeshi Yakuza film from the writer/director/star in a decade, ever since the exemplary BROTHER. The good news is that OUTRAGE is a mini-masterpiece of a Yakuza film, with a classic tit-for-tat plot, some outrageously gory moments, and a real verve and drive to it that makes for unmissable viewing. Be warned: this is very grisly stuff indeed, and it may well be the goriest Yakuza film I've yet to watch.
The plot is familiar stuff about a feuding Yakuza family and how the feud begins with small scale stuff before building into a full-blown massacre. The production values are exemplary: this is beautifully-shot stuff in which even the gore and bloodshed is handled in an attractive way. The performances are all very good, not least from the brooding auteur himself, and the ending is extremely downbeat and pessimistic rather than the usual gung-ho stuff we see in the movies. A sequel, BEYOND OUTRAGE, followed.
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DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN
This is your typical organized crime film where competing families play "King of the Hill." You get the feeling of deja vu when you watch it.
It includes, paid off cops, hits, drugs, prostitution, betrayals and an odd scene where they force the ambassador of Ghana to open a casino in his embassy. This film doesn't bring anything new to the table, except the Japanese "honorably" cut off their own finger rather than have someone else do it to them. With the film being run of the mill crime action, the English subtitles was a big negative as it was apparent they were lazy and didn't translate everything.
Parental Guide: F-bomb, token sex and nude scene.