OUTRAGE (AUTOREIJI) World Cinema

In a world where there are no heroes, it’s bad guy vs. bad guy in a spiraling explosion of gang warfare. Japanese writer, director and action movie heartthrob “Beat” Tokeshi Kitano is back to deliver one of his most violent films to date. Kita no plays mid-level yakuza boss Otomo, whose family belongs to the Sanno-koi crime organization Fellow boss Ikemoto asks Otomo to do his dirty work by making a move against the family outcast in order to appease uber-boss, “Mr. Chairman.” With his first yakuza film in nearly 10 years, Kitano delivers the wildly imaginative cruelty that is his specialty, as he tracks this intricate web of allegiances and rivalries where no one’s motives are clear. Unprecedented far Kitono are the intense verbal battles that push the level of viciousness to exponential heights. With over-the-top methods of pain infliction and constant double crosses, OUTRAGE is one film Kitano fans will not want to miss.