Outrage (2010)
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|---|---|
| German title | Outrage |
| Original title | ア ウ ト レ イ ジ |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese , English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Takeshi Kitano |
| script | Takeshi Kitano |
| production | Takeshi Kitano, Masayuki Mori , Takio Yoshida |
| music | Keiichi Suzuki |
| camera | Katsumi Yanagishima |
| cut | Takeshi Kitano, Yoshinori Ōta |
| occupation | |
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Outrage ( Japanese ア ウ ト レ イ ジ , Autoreiji ) is a Japanese yakuza film from 2010. The film was directed by Takeshi Kitano , who also starred, wrote the screenplay and produced the film.
The film premiered at the 2010 Cannes International Film Festival on May 17th. The film was released in Germany on August 26, 2011 on DVD and Blu-ray. On November 18, 2014, it ran in ZDF-Kultur in the FSK18 version.
In 2012, Outrage Beyond ( Autoreiji: Biyondo ) was a sequel that was also staged by Kitano. Outrage Coda ( Autoreiji Coda ) followed in 2017.
action
The film begins with a lavish banquet by the yakuza leader Sekiuchi. He is the boss of the organized crime syndicate Sanno-kai, which controls the entire Kanto region. He has invited many Yakuza leaders and his confidante Kato confronts Ikemoto (the leader of an allied clan). He makes it clear to him that he is disappointed about the fact that he is doing business with the warring clan leader Murase. Ikemoto and Murase were unexpectedly locked up together. Kato orders Ikemoto to come to an agreement with the warring Murase-gumi. This assigns the task to his subordinate Otomo.
Shortly thereafter, an incident occurs at a nightclub owned by Murase. A customer gets into a rip off. The customer turns out to be a member of the Ikemoto family who was sent to the nightclub to start a gang war against the Murase family. Murase thinks he has fallen out of favor with Sekiuchi and tries to improve the situation. He talks to Ikemoto, whom he knows from prison. Murase doesn't know that Ikemoto wants to destroy his gang. Ikemoto continues to crack down on Murase's family. In an incident, Otomo leaves deep scars on the face of Murase's confidante Kimura.
Eventually Murase is killed and Otomo ends up in the maximum security prison. He is unexpectedly arrested with Kimura and stabbed in the stomach with a makeshift knife. The film ends with the assassination of Sekiuchi by Kato, who becomes the new leader of the Sanno-kai clan.
criticism
The reviews of Kitano's work were very mixed. Immediately after the premiere in Cannes there were numerous negative reviews, with the majority of the critics criticizing the extreme violence of the film. The criticism has often been expressed that outrage only stages violence as an end in itself and is therefore only relevant for "die-hard people":
"So the question of why can only be answered unsatisfactorily, Outrage offers few justifications. And that is the price of the representation of violence: its use must be justified by the content and form of the film, otherwise you can safely leave the cinema. But people have different inhibition and tolerance thresholds, and anyone who sees violence as one element of many of the film culture that cannot claim a special position can enjoy Outrage a lot. "
Other reviewers saw Outrage as a must-see yakuza film that represents a return to Kitano's early work:
“In any case, with Outrage, Takeshi Kitano shot one of those yakuza films for which he was best known at the beginning of his career. However, despite its typical Kitano handwriting, the film does come up with some innovations that make it a worth seeing, albeit sometimes very explicitly brutal experience. "
The criticism of the online portal Filmstarts emphasized that Kitano gave his fans with Outrage on the one hand "what they ask for", but on the other hand acknowledged the expectations of his audience with a "bitterly evil" work:
“Friends of fast thrills will not get their money's worth here. Too impersonal, too fragmentary and too free of any conventional display value, mountains of corpses are piled up here and power structures are illustrated. [...] "Outrage" is a gangster film by an old master who actually didn't want to make any more gangster films - and which now coldly acknowledges the same expectations of his genre audience. "
The US film critic Roger Ebert rated Outrage as Kitano's worst film to date:
“Kitano is a gifted Japanese director who has made many films I admire, but this must be his worst. [...] No characterization. Minimal plot. Many murders, nicely stylized. [...] He has one idea in this film: The Yakuza code is being used to eradicate the Yakuza. Unfortunately, he doesn't take the entire 109 minutes to tell it. It only takes him a minute to tell, and he tells it 109 times. "
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Outrage at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Outrage at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Outrage . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 467 V).
- ↑ Brutal excesses of violence at Takeshi Kitano meet with criticism at moviepilot.de, accessed on November 5, 2011
- ↑ Outrage at critic.de, accessed on November 5, 2011
- ↑ Outrage at kino-zeit.de, accessed on November 5, 2011
- ^ Outrage at filmstarts.de, accessed on November 5, 2011
- ↑ Cannes # 4: A good film, a bad film, and a friend ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at blogs.suntimes.com, accessed November 5, 2011
