Blood and Bones
|
|
From AsianMediaWiki
User Rating
Current user rating: 67/100 (5 votes)
Profile
- Movie: Blood and Bones
- Romaji: Chi to hone
- Japanese: 血と骨
- Director: Yoichi Sai
- Writer: Sogil Yan (novel), Yoichi Sai, Wui Sin Chong
- Producer: Nozomu Enoki, Masaaki Wakasugi
- Cinematographer Takeshi Hamada
- Release Date: November 6, 2004
- Runtime: 140 min
- Distributor: Shochiku, Xanadeux
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
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.
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
- 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
- Kohei Kiyasu - Tokuyama
- Shoken Kunimoto
- Shion Hatakeyama
- Misuki Mizushima
- Manami Hisamoto - narrator
Awards
- 2005 (28th) Japan Academy Prize - February 18, 2005
- "Director of the Year"
- "Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role" (Kyoka Suzuki)
- "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role" (Joe Odagiri)
- 2004 (47th) Blue Ribbon Awards - February 14, 2005
- "Best Supporting Actor" ("Joe Odagiri")
krytiks Says:
Sep 07 2011 8:10 am
great movie