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Fireworks 1997
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
At once slapstick and violent, poetic and contemplative, Kitano tells the story of Nishi, a detective whose wife is terminally ill with cancer. Following a shooting, his partner Horibe becomes paraplegic and another of his colleagues is killed. Nishi then resigns to commit a heist to pay off large debts to the yakuza and, finally, to find a meaning to his life...
Nishi, a silent detective as phlegmatic as he's brutal, capable of outbursts of controlled violence, seems perfectly adapted…
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