Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
- japan
- beach
- yakuza
- knife
- okinawa
- russian roulette
- bullet wound
- gun violence
- playfulness
- fatalism
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Susumu Terajima — Ken
- Ren Osugi — Katagiri
- Tonbo Zushi — Kitajima
- Kenichi Yajima — Takahashi
- Eiji Minakata — The Hit Man
- Houka Kinoshita — Kitajima Gang Member
- Rome Kanda — Rapist
- Kota Mizumori — Kanamoto
- Yuuki Natsusaka — Murakawa Gang Member
- Kanji Tsuda — Tsuda
- Kanta Yamazaki — Waiter
- Directed
- Takeshi Kitano
- Written
- Takeshi Kitano
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 688 ratings
- Studio
- Shochiku, Bandai Visual
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
