Blood & Bones

Blood and Bones

classified 18 S

Japan Foundation Tour: It Only Happens in the Movies?

Film

Please note: This was screened in Feb 2015

Director
Yoichi Sai
Cast
Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Tomoko Tabata
Details
144 mins, Subtitled, 2004, Japan

Legendary Japanese actor Takeshi Kitano stars in this unflinching portrait of a man struggling to make a name for himself and raises difficult questions about Korean-Japanese identity. When Kim Shun-Pei (Kitano) emigrates from Jeju Island in Korea to Osaka in 1923, he is a young man. The intervening years have taken their toll as a lifelong fear of poverty meshes with his compulsive womanising and a capacity for violence to make him into the monster that he has now become. Charting his journey from a fish-cake business to heading up a small criminal empire as a loan shark, the web of turmoil surrounding Kim increases as those around him attempt to deal with his choices and increasingly violent nature. Is Kim a Darwinian product of his environment? Or a psychopath who’s able to flourish and exploit his surroundings?

Ticket prices: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions.

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