Violent Cop [Blu-ray]

Director: Takeshi Kitano Takeshi Kitano

Overview

Television comedian, author of a number of books, and star in such films as Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawerence, Takeshi Kitano stepped behind the megaphone for this two-fisted crime thriller after yakuza flick auteur Kinji Fukasaka walked off the project. Police detective Azuma (Kitano) is loose cannon Dirty Harry-like cop who is constantly in hot water with his superiors. At the film's outset, Asuma encounters a group of high school kids beating up an old man. Later that night, he pays a visit to the ringleader's middle-class home and lands a fist square in the kid's face. When he discovers a man in bed with his mentally feeble sister, Akari (Maiko Kawakami), he thrashes the guy. Azuma's crime-world double is a yakuza assassin (Ryu Haku) who's running drugs. Later, Azuma learns that not only is his best friend and partner, Iwaki (Sei Hiraizumi), selling drugs to this gangland thug, but his sister has been kidnapped and coked up by the same creep.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/11/2016
UPC:	0857692005901
Original Release:	1989
Rating:	NR
Source:	Film Movement
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:43:00
Sales rank:	26,998

Special Features

That man is dangerous: the birth of Takeshi Kitano featurette

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Takeshi Kitano	Azuma
Makoto Ashikawa	Kikuchi
Maiko Kawakami	Akari
Shiro Sano	Yoshinari
Shigeru Hiraizumi	Iwaki,Detective Iwaki,Iwaki
Ittoku Kishibe	Nito
Ken Yoshizawa	Shinkai
Haku Ryu	Kiyohiro
Hiroyuki Katsube	Deputy Police Chief Higuchi
Noboru Hamada	Chief Detective Araki
Yuuki Kawai	Detective Honma
Ishida Taro	Detective Tomosato
Ritsuko Amano	Honma's Financee
Koichi Ueda	Detective
Mikiko Otonashi	Iwaki's wife
Yoshima Hara	Detective
Katsuki Muramatsu	Deputy Commissioner Anan
Kenichi Endo	Emoto
Ei Kawamaki	Hashizume
Kiminari Matsumoto	Sakai
Zhao Fanghao	Psychiatrist Izumi

Technical Credits

Hisashi Nozawa

Shozo Ichiyama	Producer
Tatsushi Kikuchi	Stunts
Hisao Nabeshima	Producer
Hisao Notoki	Special Effects
Kazuyoshi Okuyama	Executive Producer
Masahige Takeuchi	Stunts
Makato Tsugawa	Stunts
Takio Yoshida	Producer
Takashi Yoshikawa	Casting
Hisashi Nozawa	Screenwriter
Takeshi Kitano	Director