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Boiling Point

3-4x juugatsu

1990

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano, Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Guadalcanal Taka ...

6.2

2,431

Action. Comedy. Drama. Thriller Masaki is a frail, quiet boy dividing his time between working in gas station and playing baseball.

When Masaki and his baseball coach are violently bullied by the local Yakuza, Masaki heads to Okinawa city to buy a gun and take revenge. Along the way he meets Uehara (Kitano) a psychotic and ultra- violent Yakuza outcast who is planning some revenge of his own.

Soon the situation comes to its very own BOILING POINT.

	Author	Review
United States	Lawrence Van Gelder The New York Times	"[An] intriguing tragicomedy of ill manners (...) Kitano himself turns up in a striking performance as Uehara."	POS
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"The allegory in this 1990 yakuza thriller eludes me, but writer-director Takeshi Kitano's handling of tones, which range from the grimly depressive to the irreverently hilarious, is amazing."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Though obviously the work of a director of real quality (...) 'Boiling Point' suffers because [Kitano] chooses to take a small role and focuses instead on less fascinating personalities (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"Though it hasn't quite found the right combination, the film's blend of drama, offbeat humor, complex characters, and shocking violence would serve Kitano well in later work."	NEU
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"[Kitano] is scary, hilarious and, in a strange way, touching. But his 'ultra-dark' comedy will offend the oversensitive (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"Mixes a bleak humor with poignant sympathy for some of the bad boys he depicts."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"The funniest film to date from a key '90s film-maker."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip Horne Telegraph	"An often-dazzling fable of masculine self-destructiveness."	POS

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