Broken Rage: Takeshi Kitano’s deliciously meta yakuza comedy

‘Broken Rage’ Review: Takeshi Kitano Defies Expectations in a Gleefully Concise Yakuza Parody

As if the very title didn’t give away the game, “Broken Rage” never lives up to its central conceit. Nor does it try to, not that the director particularly cares, and neither should any of us, because the film that Takeshi Kitano actually delivered is all the more delightful. Promising a kind of diptych that starts as a gritty Yakuza flick before doubling back to redo the same scenes for farce, the film plays as a more elemental game of set-up a…

Broken Rage: Takeshi Kitano’s deliciously meta yakuza comedy

Takeshi Kitano blissfully does his own thing as an ageing hitman in short-and-sweet yakuza comedy Broken Rage.

Venice Review: Broken Rage Is a Hilarious, Rollicking Self-Portrait of Takeshi Kitano

Fielding questions about Kubi, a period piece chronicling a few years of internecine feudal wars in 16th-century Japan, Takeshi Kitano dismissed some rumors he’d stoked. The film wasn’t going to be his last, as he’d previously suggested. In fact, he was already working on the next, a parody that would explore “the theme of comedy within violent movies.” I have no way of knowing when exactly the director will choose to put an end to a career that…

An hour is enough for Broken Rage and Takeshi Kitano to overwhelm the audience at the Venice Film Festival where it went out of competition. Waiting to land on Prime Video.