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Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
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Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point
Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point

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Takeshi Kitano Double Play: Violent Cop & Boiling Point

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This special limited edition spot gloss slipcover (designed by Poochamin) is limited to 2,000 units and is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

Founded in 2002 as one of the first-ever subscription film services with its DVD-of-the-Month Film Club, Film Movement is now a North American distributor of award-winning independent and foreign films based in New York City. In 2015, Film Movement launched the reissue label Film Movement Classics featuring new restorations released theatrically as well as on home video, with an emphasis on films by auteur directors such as Eric Rohmer, Peter Greenaway and Takeshi Kitano.

In his explosive directorial debut Japanese renaissance man-cum-comedian-extraordinaire Takeshi "Beat" Kitano plays vicious rogue homicide Detective Azuma who takes on a sadistic crime syndicate only to discover widespread internal corruption in the police force. Facing criminal charges for his unorthodox "Dirty Harry" type methods, Azuma finds himself caught in a web of betrayal and intrigue that sends him on a bloody trail of vengeance. But when his sister is kidnapped by a sadistic drug lord, Azuma’s tactics escalate towards an apocalyptic climax.

In enfant terrible Takeshi Kitano’s explosive second feature film, Masaki (Yûrei Yanagi) is an unassuming gas station attendant and amateur baseball player for underdog team The Eagles. After he enrages a local yakuza, setting off a feud between the gangsters and his coach, Masaki heads to Okinawa on a haphazard quest for guns with his friend Kazuo (Dancan). There they are befriended by the uber-eccentric yakuza boss Uehara (played by Kitano), who initiates them into the strange and brutal world of organized crime.

directed by: Takeshi Kitano
starring: Takeshi Kitano
1989, 1990 / 200 min (combined) / 1.85:1 / Japanese DTS-HD MA 2.0

Additional info:

  • Region Free 2-disc Blu-ray
  • That Man is Dangerous; The Birth of Takeshi Kitano featurette
  • Okinawa Days: Takeshi's Second Debut featurette
  • Original Boiling Point trailer
    • Violent Cop HD re-release trailer
    • Collector's Booklet, featuring film essay by Tom Vick, Asian Film Curator for the Freer and Sackler Galleries (The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art)
    • English subtitles