Storyline
The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, 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, who runs his own crew. The tricky jobs that no-one wants to do always end up in Otomo’s lap.
Directors
Cast
Ryo Kase, Sôichirô Kitamura, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Tetta Sugimoto, Takeshi Kitano, Eihi Shiina, Kippei Shiina, Takashi Tsukamoto, Yuka Itaya, Hideo Nakano, Renji Ishibashi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Tokio Emoto, Shin'yû Fujiwara, Akiko Kobayashi, Masaki Miura, Kenji Morinaga, Tadashi Sakata, Yûya Takayama, Naoko Watanabe
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Reviews
90
Variety
Focusing on the absurdly ultraviolent tit-for-tat tussles among a trio of Tokyo crime families, the film is a beautifully staged marvel that confidently reasserts Kitano's considerable cinematic gifts.
88
Slant Magazine
It's a brilliant reversal that, while seemingly far less inspired than most of the director's efforts, leaves us with a film that's just as iconoclastic.
80
As violent, amoral and misanthropic as a Jacobean play, Outrage is Takeshi Kitano's first yakuza flick since "Brother" (2000), and arguably his best film in a decade.
80
Wall Street Journal
His (Takeshi) sense of style is very much in evidence here, and so is his sense of humor.
80
Though it may at times seem like just another Japanese gangster picture, in Outrage, Kitano's sense of pacing is so precise, at once restrained and relentless, that the film becomes a vortex, pulling audiences in deeper and deeper.
