Violent Cop
film by Kitano
Also known as: “Sono otoko, kyōbō ni tsuki”
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discussed in biography
- In Kitano Takeshi
…otoko, kyōbō ni tsuki (Violent Cop), in which he also played the title role. The film, about a Tokyo detective trying to crack a yakuza (“gangster”)-run drug ring, drew comparisons to Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry (1971) and was the first in a series of crime epics that included 3–4x…
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