Hana-Bi (Fireworks) 1997 MA15+
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When
6.00pm, Wed 5 Aug 2015 (103 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) is a broken man haunted by the presence of death in both his work and personal life. A hardened policeman, he replays the trauma of a gunfight which his officers were killed and his colleague Horibe confined to a wheelchair. Off duty he cares for his dying wife. The deceptively simple sequences between Nishi and his wife are suffused with a heart-rending melancholy as both try to negotiate their relationship amid the unspoken specter of her approaching death. Fireworks is a delicate balance of tenderness and Kitano's characteristic nihilism that brought the actor-director to international prominence. Fireworks received the Golden Lion at the 1997 Venice Film Festival.
MA15+ | Strong violence
Production Credits
- Director: Takeshi Kitano
- Script: Takeshi Kitano
- Cinematographer: Hideo Yamamoto
- Editors: Takeshi Kitano, Yoshinori Ota
- Year: 1997
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm