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Takeshi Kitano, who made it, must be very serene or very angry; only extreme states allow such a narrow focus.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
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