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Outrage: Way of the Yakuza

Outrage: Way of the Yakuza

2010
Drama, Crime
1h 49m
The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organised crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he immediately passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo, who runs his own crew. The tricky jobs that no-one wants to do always end up in Otomo's lap...
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Outrage: Way of the Yakuza

2010
Drama, Crime
1h 49m
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Rated 25 Aug 2010
65
48th
There is almost no story at all and the entire movie is in fact just a bunch of brutal scenes, but thanks to good directing and cool actors it's still not bad - Takeshi can do better though...
Rated 17 Jan 2011
88
86th
Quite a refined archetype-, rather than character-, study. Beat's decades of dissecting yakuza on film enable him to distill their drives, impulses, perspectives, and nature into a wide cast of characters, with just enough meat for the actors to carve out different personalities for them. Beat's penchant for deadpan, satire, and dark humor still seeps through, even with the slick, polished cinematographic veneer. In that light, the title illuminates his take on the institutions he's presenting.
Rated 29 Nov 2013
80
73rd
Extremely clumsy and meandering, but it's all relatively well shot, and the violence is a lot of fun. Not much substance.
Rated 09 Dec 2010
33
25th
I laughed embarrassingly hard on an airplane at the African ambassador's reaction to having guns drawn on him. Apart from that just a series of unengaging acts of violence and yakuzas acting like 10 year olds.
Rated 04 Jan 2011
34
16th
'Beat' Takeshi's return to yakuza cinema is disappointing to say the least. His crime movies always have been very violent, but never before violence was the whole point of the film. Story of the film is unbelievably weak and serves only as a way to connect murder scenes. If not for expensive looking cinematography and top cast it would look like another straight-to-video endeavor by Takashi Miike. Suddenly those few recent self-reflective comedies of Kitano started looking much better.
Rated 09 Aug 2011
60
21st
This was much too superficial in my mind. Mostly I'm a sucker for Yakuza flicks. I adore Kitano and his awesome movies like "Dolls", "Hana Bi" and many many more but something is wrong with "Outrage". Beside the beautiful, cold and sterile look of the movie Kitano offers it's audience a poor and uninteresting plotline, which bored more the whole movie. I've expected much more by "Beat" Kitano.
Rated 20 Jan 2011
75
38th
one small mistake at the karaoke center leads to the ultimate demise of a whole generation of old school yakuzas. brutal scenes that will make you cringe, beautiful directing and enough humor to make you stick to your seats for an exhilarating 2 hours!
Rated 18 Apr 2014
62
34th
After a fairly decent opening the plot dissolves into an hour long montage of gangster killings. At some point (early in the movie) I lost track of who is taking revenge who. Too little substance compared to Kitano's earlier, more poetic and unconventional work.
Rated 01 Jan 2023
63
40th
Remember how everybody joked that all the characters got shot in the last 5 minutes of The Departed? This is like that except its the last 45 minutes and the 1st hour is just people beating the shit out of each other.
Rated 02 May 2015
70
58th
imdb says kitano decided all of the deaths and wrote a story around that. i mean, looking at it that way this is a damn impressive story. ignoring that, you still have a violent, interesting (a bit predictable but not annoyingly so) gangster flick done with a style that's not over the top or in your face but definitely leaves you feeling you've watched something unique.
Rated 29 Mar 2013
55
61st
Dreadful scenes of violence, but aside from that I thought it was an effective study of a hypermasculine world where no-one is to be trusted.
Rated 01 Feb 2011
80
86th
A great look at the modern-day yakuza. Not quite as poetic as past Kitano films; probably his most mainstream to date. Very darkly comical throughout, and VERY brutal as well.
Rated 16 Jun 2012
80
22nd
Wanders all over the place but still satisfies, despite some really bad bits. Kitano's character is so arrogant and laid back.
Rated 14 Aug 2012
75
45th
It's Takeshi playing it safe and straight. Which is odd, because it's missing that weird godamn sense of humour or insight he usually has.
Rated 22 Mar 2012
3
31st
An experience that refuses to be remembered. And there's a sequel to this now............so I'll have to watch it again? AGH
Rated 29 Jan 2012
52
24th
Pretty standard, though violent.
Rated 01 Dec 2011
35
90th
"Once sacred values like honor and brotherhood have no place here, and old practices, like ritual finger amputation as a form of apology, are turned into a running joke." - Jesse Cataldo
Rated 07 Jan 2013
55
26th
Something about Kitano's particularly detached, languid style is really hit or miss with me, and all told I think I may have watched this one in the wrong mindset. It just didn't click with me. There were plenty of darkly funny bits and the movie was wonderful to look at, but this felt every bit as "just for entertainment" as Kitano apparently set out to make it. I'm going to have to give this one a rewatch at some point down the line.
Rated 18 Sep 2013
74
48th
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Rated 15 Dec 2013
81
64th
At times I didn't really get what was going on since the plot is so wander-y and understated at times, but it's very fun, well shot, well acted, and the plot eventually gets itself together and manages to ascend above just badass and funny yakuza beboppin' about Japan and become an interesting clustercuss of double- and triple-crosses.
Rated 18 Aug 2012
65
63rd
Takeshi Kitano is just one of those actors that I can't seem to hate. I love his acting, his movies, his mannerisms. This is no different.
Rated 18 Mar 2014
70
41st
There's not much in the way of plot, apart from that stupid embarrassing nonsense with the Ghanan diplomat; it's kind of just a bunch of things that happen and then a really downbeat, nihilistic ending. Kinda like Violent Cop I guess. I didn't dislike it.
Rated 31 Jul 2017
50
26th
(Viewed on 11/03/14): Kitano returned to the well after his 'experimental' period was largely ignored. In one sense it's a blatant admission of failure, a retreat to type (i.e. damage control) that stalled his artistic growth and development. On the other hand, two of those three films weren't any good, so in theory maybe it wasn't a bad idea. Unfortunately Outrage is closer to Brother than Sonatine with its overly convoluted plot and its rather artless deployment of violence. Shame.
Rated 19 Jul 2016
2
21st
A simple, straightforward, clean cut, and in effect boring and generic tale about how the Yakuza pervert the highly esteemed traditions of honor and loyalty.
Rated 16 Aug 2020
70
56th
Having perfected a warm, grainy depiction of the city in the 90s, Katsumi Yanagijima tries his hand at a lifeless, unforgiving take on the city's underbelly with surprisingly good results. It definitely helps to know that Kitano wrote all the kills first and then shoved a plot in afterwards. A yakuza slasher flick.
Rated 05 Feb 2022
82
82nd
Takeshi Kitano and Jun Kunimura in the same movie is almost too much to handle. Those two could sit side by side in silence for 90 minutes, and I would be enthralled. I love the way Kitano handles violence. The editing is especially strong and rather unconventional in a few places, and of course, Kitano edited the film himself. The first two acts are strong already, but the third act once the dominoes are all in place is fucking great.
Rated 18 Nov 2022
64
40th
Kitano is a comedian first, and here is an example of running with a gag when the room isn’t having it. There are super subtle inversions and indictments of the late-Toei yakuza-eiga tropes: inflated personalities, characters existing for nothing but distraction, and messy “realistic” violence - told with poetry but it’s all genre garbage. They all live and die for nothing which is totally on point, but also terribly true and not all that funny.

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