Writer, director and actor Takeshi "Beat" Kitano returns to his roots in this gripping gangster drama that details the intense rivalry between two powerful yakuza syndicates and the efforts of a small crew to prevent all-out war from erupting.
Two Yakuza gangs have made a pact of nonviolence, yet long standing tensions bubble to the surface and they soon find themselves on the brink of all out war.
This film does not glorify gang violence at all. If anything it is a "behind the curtain" view of the life of a Yakuza. Politics, Power grabs, in fighting, blackmail, extortion, executions, you know, the good stuff. Outrage is long and deliberate but when the gang war is finally on, no one survives. The idea behind that is to wipe out the whole crew so that there's no one who can come back for revenge later and in doing so, I have to give credit where it's due. The ruthless gangs always come up with new ways to kill and in this film, they created a vehicular lynching.
From the front seat of a car, they tied a rope around a guys neck and tied the other end to a pole on the highway. Then they put the car in full speed wich instantly snapped his neck and pulled him backward.
Crazy.
Out of Ten? 6
Not to quote the cover, but Outrage is definitely not for the squeamish
Violence? Yes
Explosions? One
Nudity? Two Titties
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