Boiling Point

1990 · directed by Takeshi Kitano

Rating

78/100

Hit

no

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Boiling Point (1990), directed by Takeshi Kitano, rates 78/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Yûrei Yanagi
• Yuriko Ishida
• Takeshi Kitano
• Guadalcanal Taka
• Dankan
• Makoto Ashikawa
• Hisashi Igawa
• Johnny Ohkura
• Eri Fuse
• Katsuo Tokashiki

Crew

• Katsumi Yanagijima — Director of Photography
• Toshio Taniguchi — Editor
• Takeshi Kitano — Screenplay

More from Takeshi Kitano

1. Kids Return (1996) — 83/100 · hit
2. Fireworks (1997) — 82/100 · hit
3. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — 79/100
4. Sonatine (1993) — 78/100
5. Zatoichi (2003) — 76/100
6. Violent Cop (1989) — 76/100

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