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Outrage: Beyond

Japan 2012
produced by
Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida for Office Kitano, Bandai Visual, TV Tokyo, Omnibus Japan, Warner Brothers
directed by Takeshi Kitano (= Beat Takeshi)
starring Beat Takeshi (= Takeshi Kitano), Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Sugata, Tomokazu Miura, Hirofumi Arai, Kenta Kiritani, Ken Mitsuishi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yutaka Matsushige, Machiko Ono, Sansei Shiomi, Shigeru Koyama, Hakuryu, Akira Nakao, Hideo Nakano, Katsunori Takahashi, Tetsuji Tanaka, Ippei Sasaki, Tatsuo Nadaka, Kenta Kamiya
written by Takeshi Kitano (= Beat Takeshi), music by Keiichi Suzuki

Outrage

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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In the middle of a gangwarwar between the Sanno and the Hanabishi families, Sanno-boss Kato (Tomokazu Miura) has made Ishibara (Ryo Kase), a young upstart who thinks little of yakuza traditions but knows how to make money, his second-in-command - much to the dismay of the other Sanno bosses, butthere's little they can do, because Ishibara is a ruthless bastard.

Anti-gang detective Kataoka (Fumiyo Kohinata) does everything to support Ishibara, not so much because he's on the Sanno-payroll but because he thinks with Ishibara in a leading position, the Sannos and Hanabishis will destroy each other. And to really throw a wrench into the works, he has Otomo (Takeshi Kitano), former Sanno member who hates Ishibara's guts, released from prison early. Otomo soon joins forces with Kimura (Hideo Nakano), an erstwhile rival who's now trying to go straight, as of all the yakuza he has once known, Kimura is the only one he can trust. Soon enough, Otomo and Kimura shake up the whole gangland, and what they lack in manpower, they make up in careful planning and Otomo's utter ruthlessness that rivals Ishibara's. But they don't only kill to get to their goal, they also carefully place rumours and the like to destroy Kato's honour within the Sanno family, and when they finally manage to kill Ishibara, Kato is destroyed within the family and is forced to retire - upon which Otomo shoots him peronally.

Having achieved their goal, Otomo retires and leaves the fruits of their work, a new turf for their little organisation, to Kimura - but he's only insulted by the other bosses, who are more than happy to be rid of Ishibara but refuse to pay up top those who did the dirty work. Eventually, Kimura is killed, too.

Detective Kataoka is more than happy, Otomo has acted exactly as planned, and has been a good pawn in his game, but when he comes to congratulate Otomo smugly at Kimura's funeral, Otomo shoots him dead without warning.

 

From a purely narrative point of view, Outrage: Beyond might seem like a horribly over-convoluted movie with way too many characters to keep track of, way too many devious plots crossing each other to properly follow ... and yet, the movie works, even if you haven't seen Outrage, Takeshi Kitano's film from two years before this is built on and succeeds. It works because beneath all the subplots and simultaneous narrative threads, the film actually tells one story, and it's carried by strong characters. Plus, Kitano never falls in love with his complex story to a point where he forgets to entertain. Heck, he even throws a bunch of slapstick scenes in just for good measure. Add to this a mixture of directorial restraint (mostly) and exploding violence that's never self-serving, and of course a competent cast, and you end up with a pretty exciting movie that's more than just another yakuza-tale.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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