OUTRAGE (2010)
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Notable Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase,
Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Tetta Sugimoto, Takashi Tsukamoto, Nideo Nakano,
Renji Ishibashi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Soichiro Kiamura
Upon my second viewing of Outrage, I still feel a bit conflicted about the film. On one hand,
Takeshi Kitano handles his "comeback" to the yakuza film with a very
intense and precise touch. The film is very vague in its build, rarely giving
exposition outside of assumed connections from the audience, and it bops around
a variety of characters as it pieces together its plot about the rising
internal strife of a larger yakuza family. To its benefit, Outrage is brimming with fantastic performances and the tone is
suffocating in how it presents itself with surgical precision. Kitano might have
branched out from yakuza films in recent years, but really this is the kind of comeback
to the form and style that it was made out to be and in that kind of execution
it’s right in line with expectations.