Takeshi Kitano. OUTRAGE. First Trailer.

by Todd Brown, January 29, 2010 7:47 PM

Lots of familiar faces. Lots of angry men shouting. Lots of Takeshi Kitano getting back to what made us love him in the first place: Being the baddest yakuza thug on the planet.

After a too-long foray into less-than-successful experimentation, classic Kitano is back with Outrage. The trailer is below.

The story begins with Sekiuchi (Kitamura Soichiro), boss of the Sannokai, a huge organised crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato (Miura Tomokazu) and right-hand man Ikemoto (Kunimura Jun), head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he immediately passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo (Beat Takeshi), who runs his own crew. The tricky jobs that no-one wants to do always end up in Otomo's lap...

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6 Comments

by mrhibbert, January 29, 2010 9:17 PM

There was definitely a large amount of shouting in that trailer. That last shot was awesome.

ChevalierAguila replied to comment from mrhibbert, January 29, 2010 11:05 PM

I agree with both statements, also, i'm loving the cast.

by krln99, January 30, 2010 12:04 AM

God damn, this is so fuckin gangsta! Great cast with a lot of old school dudes in it. LOL at everyone ending every single line with kono yaro (asshole). Nice tagline at the end - Everyone is evil.

BTW, though not necessarily commercially successful, I'm glad that Kitano did some non-yakuza films. He needed to step away from the genre, and I'm sure he didn't want to be known strictly as a "yakuza movie" actor/director.

Todd Brown replied to comment from krln99, January 30, 2010 3:39 PM

I actually really like a lot of Kitano's non-yakuza stuff -- I personally think A Scene At The Sea may be his best film -- but his earlier forays into that world worked better than his later ones, which seemed to become increasingly self absorbed. I liked Takeshis a fair bit and still think it is quite clever in the way it deconstructs his own public persona, but I've been less and less impressed with each subsequent film ...

by dmack.ca, January 30, 2010 2:25 AM

This looks superb. I agree with krin99 on both counts - Successful or not, Kitano's last 3 movies weren't bad. I atually really liked Achilles & the Tortoise.

by steiner from mars, January 30, 2010 6:53 AM

So happy to see him back to yakuza eiga for a while. It looks great.

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