Outrage Beyond

Takeshi Kitano's Outrage Beyond (Japan, 2012) - If a successful yakuza-movie formula ain’t broke, why fix it? Outrage, which previewed at Cannes in 2010, was a welcome return to box-office kudos as well as artistic form for maverick Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. The actor-director with the lived-in face stays on safe ground with this sequel – to the extent of resurrecting characters who had apparently been killed in Outrage. / As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has no become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond. 2012NYFF, 2012TOR, 2012VENic. RATING: 7