Outrage (2010 film)

Outrage
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Takeshi Kitano
Produced by	Masayuki Mori Takio Yoshida
Written by	Takeshi Kitano
Starring	Takeshi Kitano
Music by	Keiichi Suzuki
Cinematography	Katsumi Yanagijima
Editing by	Takeshi Kitano
Studio	Office Kitano
Distributed by	Office Kitano Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	17 May 2010 (2010-05-17) (Cannes Film Festival) 12 June 2010 (2010-06-12) (Japan)
Running time	109 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese English
Box office	634 million yen

Outrage (Japanese: アウトレイジ, translit. Autoreiji) is a 2010 Japanese yakuza film directed by and starring Takeshi Kitano. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. It is to be followed by a 2011 sequel, Outrage 2.

Plot

The story begins with Sekiuchi (Kitamura Soichiro), boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato (Miura Tomokazu) and right-hand man Ikemoto (Kunimura Jun), head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to bring the unassociated Murase-gumi gang in line, and he immediately passes the task on to his subordinate Otomo (Beat Takeshi), who runs his own crew.

Cast

• Takeshi Kitano as Ôtomo
• Kippei Shiina as Mizuno
• Ryō Kase as Ishihara
• Tomokazu Miura as Katô
• Jun Kunimura as Ikemoto
• Tetta Sugimoto as Osawa
• Takashi Tsukamoto as Iizuka
• Hideo Nakano as Kimura
• Renji Ishibashi as Murase
• Fumiyo Kohinata as Detective Kataoka
• Sôichirô Kitamura as Mr Chairman
• Yukiyo Tanahashi as Hostess
• Naoko Watanabe

Production

Following a string of more unconventional films with limited commercial success, Takeshi Kitano decided to make Outrage as a film with no other ambition than to be entertaining. He was reluctant to label it as a return to his roots but referred to yakuza films as "a genre for which I have talent". When writing the screenplay, Kitano started by inventing the ways in which characters would be killed in the film, and thereafter wrote a story that would go along with the violence.^[1] The film was produced by Office Kitano with Bandai Visual, TV Tokyo and Omnibus Japan.^[2] Per the producer's suggestion no actors who had appeared in earlier Kitano films were cast, with the director himself as an exception.^[3] It was shot in CinemaScope from 23 August to 23 October 2009. Filming locations included Kobe and the Ibaraki Prefecture.^[2]

Release

The film premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival where it was screened on 17 May 2010.^[4] The Japanese premiere followed on 12 June through a collaboration between Office Kitano and the Japanese subsidiary of Warner Bros.^[5] The film had a revenue of 1,597,856 dollars (146,363,610 yen) from 155 screens during the opening weekend, which made it the fourth highest grossing film in Japan that week.^[6] As of 4 July 2010, Box Office Mojo reported a total revenue of 7,230,528 dollars (634,117,307 yen) in the domestic market.^[7]

References

1. ^ Onda, Yasuko (2010-06-25). "The many faces of Takeshi: Artist, director, comedian or TV talento, the man known as Takeshi Kitano is hard to define". Daily Yomiuri Online. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20100625TDY10T01.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-04. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ ^{a b} "English press kit Outrage". Celluloid Dreams. May 2010. http://www.festival-cannes.com/assets/Image/Direct/034779.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-12. 
3. ^ Ishitobi, Noriko (2010-06-26). "Kitano finds laughs even in a bloody gang war". Asahi Shimbun English Web Edition. http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201006250430.html. Retrieved 2010-07-04. 
4. ^ "The screenings guide". festival-cannes.com. Cannes Film Festival. http://www.festival-cannes.fr/assets/File/Web/HORAIRES%202010/Horaire%20Projections.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-09. 
5. ^ "アウトレイジ (2010): 作品詳細情報" (in Japanese). pia-eigaseikatsu.jp. PIA Corporation. http://pia-eigaseikatsu.jp/title/ex-152983. Retrieved 2010-07-10. 
6. ^ "Japan Box Office June 12–13, 2010". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/?yr=2010&wk=24&p=.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-09. 
7. ^ "Japan Box Office July 3–4, 2010". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/?yr=2010&wk=27&p=.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-09. 

External links

• Official website (US)
• Official website (Japanese)
• Outrage at the Internet Movie Database
• Japan Reviewed - Outrage