SONATINE [SUBTITLES in CC] dir./starring Takeshi Kitano | SCENE
Kitano invents a new poetics of film with a consistent cycle of that which is Narrative, then Lyrical, and finally Violent. These fibers begin disparately and twist into a single thread by the end. The red and the blue become a diminutive sonata.
1993. Dir. Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. Starring Susuma Terajima, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe, Ren Ôsugi. Music by Joe Hisaishi. Edi. Takeshi Kitano. Cinematography by Katsumi Yanagijima. Costume by Junichi Goto, Alen Mikudo.
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