Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004 · 140 min · JA · 6.5 (41 votes)
Dir. Yōichi Sai · Starring Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Kyoka Suzuki, Joe Odagiri, Yutaka Matsushige, Tomoko Tabata · Music Taro Iwashiro
Drama

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.

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A raw, decades-spanning portrait of a man's relentless ambition and the corrosive effect of prejudice. It's a stark, often brutal look at survival and the compromises made in a harsh world.

grittybleakintenseunflinchingsteadysocial realismperiod dramacharacter studyidentityexploitationambitionprejudice
based on novel or bookzainichi
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