 together and
performed by Japanese comedian Takeshi Kitano who also
completed the designs that illustrate the story.
Acclaimed in the recent Venice Festival, the director was
compared to Jacques Tati, Samuel Fueller, Sam Peckinpack,
Jean Pierre Melville, Quentin Tarantino and even to
Buster Keaton. And he won the Golden Lion, the maximum
prize for the event, for this black humor comedy.The film
is divided between scenes of tenderness and extreme
violence to narrate the trajectory of detective Nishi, a
man guided by ideals of friendship and loyalty. His life,
however, undergoes a complete change when he learns that
his wife has a terminal disease.As soon as he leaves the
hospital, as yet shaken by the drastic condition of his
wife, he is given the news that his friend and partner
has been shot in an ambush by the Mafia. Weeks later, he
visits his companion who is in a wheel chair living in a
house by the seaside. |
