Synopsis
Broken Rage (2024) is Takeshi Kitano's Japanese crime experiment, and you can watch it online on iFILM. An aging hitman nicknamed Mouse picks up his jobs from a shadowy go-between, right up until the police snap a trap shut around him.
To stay free, Mouse agrees to slip inside a Tokyo yakuza outfit running the city's drug trade and to set up a sting deal. Then comes the trick the whole film is built on: Kitano runs the same story through twice. First as a lean, deadpan crime drama, then again as flat-out farce, every scene pushed straight into the absurd.
At a mere 66 minutes, this is less a full thriller than a sly joke a veteran plays on his own genre. Kitano takes the lead himself, joined by Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori and Shido Nakamura. It won't be for everyone, but fans of his dry humor will eat it up. Stream Broken Rage (2024) online on iFILM.
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