Boiling Point

Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Film Movement Classics
1990
97 Minutes
Japan
Japanese
Thriller, Asian, Action, Crime, Classics
Not Rated
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Blu-ray
$39.95
DVD
$34.95
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In enfant terrible Takeshi Kitano’s explosive second feature film, Masaki (Yûrei Yanagi) is an unassuming gas station attendant and amateur baseball player for underdog team The Eagles. After he enrages a local yakuza, setting off a feud between the gangsters and his coach, Masaki heads to Okinawa on a haphazard quest for guns with his friend Kazuo (Dancan). There they are befriended by the uber-eccentric yakuza boss Uehara (played by Kitano), who initiates them into the strange and brutal world of organized crime.

Cast

  • Takeshi Kitano
DVD Features

Okinawa Days: Takeshi's Second Debut featurette.
Original Boiling Point trailer.
Collector's Booklet, featuring film essay by Tom Vick, Asian Film Curator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries (The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art).

Sound: Dual Mono

Discs: 1

Blu-ray Features

Okinawa Days: Takeshi's Second Debut featurette.
Original Boiling Point trailer.
Collector's Booklet, featuring film essay by Tom Vick, Asian Film Curator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries (The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art).

Sound: Dual Mono

Discs: 1

  • Highest Rating
    "A work of varied and strange miracles."
    Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
  • Highest Rating
    "I can think of no working director who uses stillness as gracefully and effectively as Takeshi Kitano."
    Sean Axmaker, Seattle Weekly

Awards & Recognition

Official Selection
Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival

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