Violent Cop
, also known as Warning: This Man is Wild and So No Otoko Kyobo Ni Tsuki, is a 1989 Japanese neo-noir action thriller film directed, co-written by and starring Takeshi Kitano. It was Kitano's directorial debut, and marked the beginning of his career as a filmmaker.
Plot
Kitano plays Azuma, a police detective who lives with his intellectually disabled sister Akari (who he is extremely overprotective of), has a gambling problem that forces him to constantly borrow money, and has a reputation for using excessive violence when dealing with criminals, ignoring police rules and regulations when they become inconvenient, and for his strong sense of morality, which is shown when, after witnessing a gang of teenage boys beat up a homeless man for fun, he enters the home of the gang's leader and beats him before making him promise to turn himself and his friends in, which he does the next day. Azuma's superiors, who admire him for his ability to get results, overlook his constant violations of the police code by making him write "apologies" whenever he does something unlawful.
More details
author | Takeshi Kitano |
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director | Takeshi Kitano |
editor | Nobutake Kamiya |
genre | action thriller |
keywords | art gallery disabled drug deal far gone force gamble hang hide homeless man intellectually disabled kill murder pick up police detective police force search shoot teenage boy third man track down vice squad wound young woman |
musicBy | Daisaku Kume |
producer | Shôzô Ichiyama Takio Yoshida Toshio Nabeshima |
publisher | Shochiku |
theme | japanese neo-noir splatter yakuza |