Blood and Bones
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[edit] Profile
- Movie: Blood and Bones
- Romaji: Chi to hone
- Japanese: 血と骨
- Director: Yoichi Sai
- Writer: Sogil Yan, Yoichi Sai
- Producer:
- Cinemotagraphy:
- Release Date: November 6, 2004
- Runtime: 140 min
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
[edit] Plot
In 1923, KIM Shun-pei left Cheju, an isolated island in the far South of Korea for Osaka, Japan, dreaming of making his fortune in a new land.
Contrary to his hopes, what was waiting for Shun-pei in Japan was a brutal life of discrimination and hard labour. With his remarkable physical strength, cunning and ruthlessness he overcomes the odds stacked against him and opens a kamaboko (steamed fish cake) factory, which before long is a success, bringing him the fortune he coveted for so long. However, with no limit to his obsession for money, Shun-pei gradually transforms himself into a ruthless loan shark.
BLOOD AND BONES paints an unflinching portrait of a man's deeply bound to his ego and obsessions and the web of turmoil his wife, mistress, children, relatives and all those around him are drawn into as a result of his choices and brutal, violent nature. Based on a true story by Sogiru Yan, Beat Takeshi portrays the epic rise and fall of a first generation Korean man in a defining role.
[edit] Director's Statement
It took six years for BLOOD AND BONES to actually get started into production. At the outset I had no idea that this project would be such a difficult and time-consuming process. These six years were what it took to fully adapt the epic lyricism and magnificence of the novel into a screenplay. The production was fraught with difficulty, both personal and budgetary and, like its protagonist we had to overcome many difficulties to reach our goals.
Despite the difficulties, as the finishing date was getting close, I felt sad and found myself saying, "Is it already over?" rather than sighing with relief. My crew thought I had gone crazy.
Working with Beat Takeshi and Kyoka SUZUKI was an amazing experience. Much wisdom and talent in the present Japanese film industry gathered in the name of the film, BLOOD AND BONES and it shows on screen.
I will never tire of making films and will be attracted at the mystery of the filmaking till my last breath.
I wish this film best to the end of time. -- Yoichi Sai
[edit] Cast
- Takeshi Kitano - Joon-pyong Kim
- Hirofumi Arai - Masao Kim
- Tomoko Tabata - Hanako Kim
- Joe Odagiri - Takeshi Park
- Kyoka Suzuki - Yong-hee Lee
- Yuko Nakamura - Kiyoko Yamanashi
- Jae Baxley - Fight Spectator
- Mari Hamada - Sadako Toritani
- Atsushi Ito - Yong-il / Young Joon-pyong
- Shuuji Kashiwabara - San-myung Jang
- Kazuki Kitamura - Yoshio Motoyama
- Jun Kunimura - Yong-sang Jo
- Yutaka Matsushige - Nobuyoshi Ko
- Naoyuki Morita - Young Masao
- Mami Nakamura - Sanae Otani
- Takashi Nishina - Yong-su Kim
- Kozo Sato - Tae-su Kim
- Sansei Shiomi - Sung-ki Kim
- Miako Tadano - Chun-mi Kim
- Susumu Terajima - Hee-bom Park
- Shoken Kunimoto
