Blood and Bones ( Chi to hone )

Blood and Bones (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Chi to hone
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
140 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yoichi Sai

Written By:
Yoichi Sai
Sogil Yan

Actors:
Takeshi Kitano ..... Jyombion Kim
Hirofumi Arai ..... Masao
Tomoko Tabata ..... Hanako Kim
Jô Odagiri ..... Chan-myung
Kyoka Suzuki ..... Yong-Hee Lee
Mihoko Suino ..... Harumi
Shigemori Matsu ..... Nobuyoshi
Yûko Nakamura ..... Kiyoko Yamanashi
Mari Hamada ..... Sadako Toritani
Junji Ito ..... Yoshio Motoyama
Shuuji Kashiwabara ..... Nobuyoshi Ko
Kazuki Kitamura
Jun Kunimura
Yutaka Matsushige
Sansei Shiomi
Mihoko Tadano
Susumu Terajima

Synopsis:

Acclaimed actor/director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano turns in a riveting performance in the powerful and harrowing drama Blood and Bones! Kitano stars as Shunpei Kim, a Korean immigrant in Japan whose life is a troubled tableau of cruelty, abuse, and snarling, sudden violence. Kim is a despicable creature, who physically and sexually assaults his estranged wife, abuses workers at his fish cake factory, and gambles away his earnings instead of using them to feed his family. When his ruthless ways result in success, Shunpei opens up a loan-sharking business, bringing even more potential victims into his destructive orbit. As the years pass, Shunpei's continuing heartlessness reveals the ugly and even uniquely human in his daily life in Osaka's Korean ghetto. Shunpei is a cunning survivor, but at what terrible cost?

Shunpei is a violent man, working at the fish factory in Osaka. When he is off, he drinks and is continuously consumed by hate. When the factory closes, he becomes a loan shark. That is the simple characteristic of the main character, to be played by Kitano Takeshi. Based upon one of the biggest bestsellers in Korea - the Yamamoto-Syugoro prize winning novel 'Chi no Hone' by Yang Sogiru (Sogil Yan) - the film tells the story the story about Yang Sogiru's father, Shunpei, who was amongst the first generation Koreans to live in Japan.

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