Hana-bi is a big movie of little words. Takeshi Kitano deserves recognition for every role that he has on this movie: he directed, produced, edited and stars as Yashitaka Nishi a cop who does things his way, the hard way.
Kitano combines on this movie the rawest and most brutal of the violence with the most delicate and tender human feelings. He mixes them separately on the movie but together in Nishi, a guy who does quite severe when the tough gets going and toughly tender when the tough is gone.
Visually the movie is simply a masterpiece: every single frame is a splendid image by itself, each detail is there because it belongs there; Kitano and cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto did a superb job letting the images do the job, words supposed to do.
Hana-bi is not a thrilling movie even it's about cops and mobsters, Hana-bi is an atmospheric and moody movie were you'll simply witness a tough story about a tough man who has as much from tough as from man.
Kitano combines on this movie the rawest and most brutal of the violence with the most delicate and tender human feelings. He mixes them separately on the movie but together in Nishi, a guy who does quite severe when the tough gets going and toughly tender when the tough is gone.
Visually the movie is simply a masterpiece: every single frame is a splendid image by itself, each detail is there because it belongs there; Kitano and cinematographer Hideo Yamamoto did a superb job letting the images do the job, words supposed to do.
Hana-bi is not a thrilling movie even it's about cops and mobsters, Hana-bi is an atmospheric and moody movie were you'll simply witness a tough story about a tough man who has as much from tough as from man.