Outrage: Way of the Yakuza

Takeshi Kitano has been making movies – especially yakuza movies – for a long time now, but, unlike some of his peers, he shows absolutely no sign of being bored with the genre. If anything the energy he brings to each new project burns brighter than the last, and in Outrage, it’s almost incandescent. In Outrage, Takeshi plays Ôtomo, the silent but very deadline hit man for one of the warring families. Ôtomo is a faithful soldier, doing whatever his boss tells him to do, no matter how gruesome, without any questions or, it seems, very much thought. It’s not too long, though, before Ôtomo sees the bodies piling up on both sides of the war and he realizes his could be added to the pile soon if he doesn’t take action. And he does, in glorious Takeshi style, including a scene in a dentist’s office that will give you nightmares.