Outrage Coda 10/21 Blu-ray (Rental)

Product Description The final chapter in the wildly successful Outrage trilogy. Five years after surviving the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo now works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a renowned fixer whose influence extends into Japan. A relatively minor incident causes tensions to rise between Chang Enterprises and the faraway powerful Hanabishi. The growing conflict gets out of hand and ignites a ferocious power struggle among the top echelons of the Hanabishi. When eventually Chang's life is endangered, devoted yakuza Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all. Bonus features include Outrage Offstage Making-Of Documentary, and 'Beat' Takeshi Trailers. Review OFFICIAL SELECTION - Rotterdam Int'l. Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Venice Film Festival OFFICIAL SELECTION - Mar del Plata Film Festival --- ...elegant visuals and some humorously imaginative murders which are the director's trademark. - Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter This ruthlessly austere yakuza triptych marks a return to basics for director-star Takeshi Kitano, aka Beat Takeshi. [It] shows him honing his crime movie craft in a way that consolidates his mastery of a minimalist style that surely makes him the Jean-Pierre Melville of Asian cinema. --Jonathan Romney, Screen International [T]his unregenerately macho action flick digs deep into the criminal psyche, exposing its loneliness as well as its unlimited capacity for cruelty. --Mark Schilling, Japan Times