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Violent Cop (1989)

After gaining popularity as a stand-up comic and TV actor, "Beat" Takeshi Kitano shocked audiences and critics by making his directorial debut with this brutal crime drama. Kitano plays a lone wolf policeman who puts his badge on the line to exact a savage vengeance on the drug gang that raped his sister and left his partner hospitalized. Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Shiro Sano also star. 103 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR

Boiling Point (1990)

After an angry encounter with local Yakuza members leads to their coach being savagely beaten by the hoods, two members of a junior baseball team seek revenge, but their trip to Okinawa to buy a gun lands them in the company of a psychotic Yakuza outcast. "Beat" Takeshi Kitano’s violent and darkly comic tale stars Masahiko Ono, with Kitano as the amoral gangster Uehara. 98 min. In Japanese with English subtitles. C/Rtg: NR

Widescreen; Soundtrack: Japanese; Subtitles: English; featurettes; theatrical trailers.