Sonatine is a Japanese Yakuza film directed by Takeshi Kitano (remember Violent Cop??)A rival gang attacks Takeshi Kitano's headquarters, and then confronts him and his men in a shoot out in a bar. Takeshi and friends head to a beach house to keep their heads down until the heat cools off. His friends play childish games, get drunk and what not until members of the rival gang begin to track them to the beach. Before they start getting killed, it's basically a domentation of how a bunch of Japanese men kill time.
Takeshi Kitano is a master of adapting the reality everylife into fiction. He's also known more for his... comedy in Japan than he is for his yakuza characters. Which I can't understand since there isn't anything funny about what he does. Sometimes his gangster characters make me laugh though, because he just stands there blank faced and fires a gun, devoid of almost any emotion, much like Golgo 13. Kitano said himself that he was either thinking of becoming a baseball player or a yakuza member when he was a kid. Said he'd look upto them around where he lived.
Takeshi Kitano dies in almost all of his yakuza themed films, whether it's at his own hands, or another's. Watch this movie to find out if he does in this one. I reckon most people who like anime and manga, will eventually watch Yakuza films.
My rating: 6.9/10
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