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Boiling Point
３－４Ｘ１０月
1990 · Film · 96 min
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
CrimeComedyDramaActionThriller
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.
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Ha, I came here to say the same thing. At the least, I recognized:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo-Ga
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Point_(1990_film)
All good films, though maybe acquired tastes unless you are into Japanese film. The second is a documentary by Wim Wenders exploring the work of Yasujiro Ozu, mixed with Wenders' visual impressions of 80s Japan.