"Fireworks" in English, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano. I had to see a movie with Kitano in it since learning that he was the man behind "Fûun! Takeshi Jô" a.k.a. "Takeshi's Castle", the Japanese game show on which "Most Extreme Elimination Challenge" or "MXC" was based. You might know him as "Vic Romano" from the series.
Turns out Takeshi Kitano has been a serious actor, writer, and director for many years and is something of a legend in Japan. Fireworks has some great dialogue, punctuated by pauses that made me think of playwright Harold Pinter (whose work I've yet to see except for clips on PBS yesterday played because of his recent death). Kitano plays a retired cop whose wife is ill with terminal cancer, owes money to Yakuza mobsters, and whose former partner is paralyzed from being shot on the job and is now suicidal.
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