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Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi)

Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi)

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    Boiling Point

    BOILING POINT

    TAKESHI KITANO (BEAT TAKESHI) Japan, 1990

    In his second feature film, Takeshi Kitano dives further into Japan’s underworld by way of a baseball player turned patsy in this carefully plotted road trip lined with vengeance. Boiling Point deepens Kitano’s analysis of male violence…while also featuring one of cinema’s greatest karaoke scenes.

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