Fireworks

The film in a word: unexpected. The characters don't speak a lot, yet you get to know them intimately. My favourite? Mr. Horibe. The plot is implausible, yet you connect quickly with these characters. Everything in the film is... sturdy. I liked watching how it held itself up. Nothing seemed fragile, even if it should have been. Watch this one with the English subtitles; I love how they linger.

Watched in 97 and while nearly all the plot is forgotten, so much imagery and the associated emotion remains. A story of imagery and symbols showing the emotional tale that the characters can't tell. How film is supposed to be used.

An absolutely beautiful and poetic film, loses points for a frustrating, boring scene (like the space scene in 2001) involving stills of paintings that had me fast forwarding. Captures a unique and believable relationship with only snippets of dialogue.

a beautiful mixture of violence and beauty, this movie is quite emotional and symbolical..

The finest of Kitano's body of work, this elegaic, prying look into the devastating sadness of a lone cop packs more tears than a month of soaps, with eighty times the pathos to show for it. Poor comparison, but it's hard to convey how the Western Eastwood trumps anything Clint's ever done here.

Any of his stuff from this era, honestly. Superb.