Violent Cop Torrent
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http://urllio.com/r9kkjA violence prone police officer discovers that his colleague is trafficking drugs.
Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend and colleague, Iwaki, is supplying drugs from within the police force. After Iwaki is murdered and Azuma's sister is kidnapped, he breaks all the rules to dish out his particular form of justice.
Beat Takeshi was best-known as a television host (see, for instance, TAKESHI'S CASTLE) when he made his mark with this violent cop thriller, best seen as a Japanese version of the classic DIRTY HARRY films. VIOLENT COP is an odd, unconventional movie that should be virtually unwatchable, due to long periods of inaction and a total lack of music in the production. Instead, it flies by at a speedy pace and often proves to be unmissable viewing.<br/><br/>Takeshi himself, typically stony-faced and taciturn, presides over the film as the violent cop, although the true violence of his character isn't revealed until the film's conclusion. Many scenes see him going about his duty, slapping the heck out of drug dealers, abusive husbands, and minor thugs, before things take a turn for the darker in the last half-hour of the movie. The last part of the film sees Takeshi tangling with a ruthless assassin, setting the scene for a truly nihilistic conclusion that bears more than a passing resemblance to the Shakespearian tragedies of old.<br/><br/>Violence is hard-hitting and gruesome; the worst scene for me is when the lookout cop has his head shattered with a baseball bat. But the ending, with its "everybody's crazy" coda, makes for very uncomfortable viewing, and the final shot – revealing that a rookie cop has become corrupt as all the rest – makes one question the value of humanity. Cold, gritty and altogether disturbing, VIOLENT COP is a film as ruthless as Takeshi himself.
I finally saw this movie over ten years after its release. I never heard of it, or "Beat" Takeshi Kitano for that matter, until I saw "Violent Cop," despite the fact that I am a devout Asia file. I was blown away by the film's in-your-face violence and brilliant filmmaking (Kitano is also the director). It combines old-fashioned action with a Japanese film nior. Kitano is an incredible find, a combination of Toshiro Mifune, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen and Harvey Keitel. I must admit I was somewhat disappointed to find out the film came out eleven years ago; I was hoping that I found a man who was not afraid to play a bad-ass character in a bad-ass movie in a time when political correctness is choking us. Nevertheless, I was happy to see such a refreshing film on the video store shelves. The surrealistic ending doesn't quite fit within the no-nonsense context of the film, but it is a very passable flaw. A definite must for Asian film fans, action aficionados and film connoisseurs alike.
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