Broken Rage

Crime Drama Comedy Action Japanese

A seemingly unremarkable man called “Mouse” is caught by the police. In exchange for his freedom, he goes undercover, infiltrates a drug ring, and arranges a fake deal, but an unexpected turn of events occurs... Director Takeshi Kitano presents a two-part film: a serious yakuza action and a self-parodying comedy of the same story. What is the fate of "Mouse"?

Cast:	Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shido Nakamura, Hakuryu, Takashi Nishina, So Kaku, Gekidan Hitori, Masanori Hasegawa, Azusa Babazono, Suzuki Mogura
Director:	Takeshi Kitano
Writer:	Takeshi Kitano
Editor:	Takeshi Kitano, Yoshinori Ota
Camera:	Takeshi Hamada

All Guild Reviews of Broken Rage

Image of scene from the film Broken Rage

The weirdest movie of the year, courtesy Takeshi Kitano; no wonder Amazon buried it

Rohan Naahar | Independent Film Critic writing for Collider

Sun, February 23 2025

We live in a world where Mr Beast's show gets more respect from Amazon Prime Video than Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano's new film.

In a recent interview, actor Rajiv Thakur admitted that audiences that have seen him as a fixture on Kapil Sharma’s comedy shows will have no idea that he played a menacing terrorist in the spectacular streaming series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack. And those who discovered him through IC 814 wouldn’t know that he has spent years as a part of Sharma’s silly troupe. In the Venn diagram of Indian entertainment, these audiences will never intersect, even though both IC 814 and The Great Indian Kapil Show are available on Netflix. Similarly, it is possible that cinephiles familiar with Takeshi Kitano through his art-house yakuza movies, or his memorable appearance in the hyper-violent Battle Royale, will collapse in shock they are told that he was so central to the game show Takeshi’s Castle that they named it after him. Kitano gets to play with his two creative personalities — the Golden Lion-winning filmmaker and the court jester — in his latest movie, Broken Rage, which was released on Prime Video with less fanfare than what you’d find at funerals in certain cultures.