More straightforward then his later films - look who's become an expert already - and not written by the director but by Hisashi Nozawa, though certain directorial devices are already in play, such as the sequences where people are held in shot, motionless, for so long you think the DVD's frozen. As Takeshi took over the project from another director he did rewrite the script, but without credit. It was his debut feature.
Beat Takeshi plays an unorthodox Dirty Harry-type cop who won't play by the rules. Fantastic chase sequence where the pursued suddenly starts smashing the car in with a steel pipe - so Beat runs him over! Story involves murder of drug dealer - Beat is after both the psychotic killer and his boss, a kind of corporate criminal type. Ends with Beat's mentally challenged sister Maiko Kawakami being kidnapped - the kidnappers manage to end up killing each other - Beat ends up also shooting his sister, who's become a junkie!
With Makoto Ashikawa as the new detective, Shiro Sano, Sei Hiraizumi. Music Diasaku Kume (including a version of a Satie piece), cinematographer Yasushi Sasakibara, editor Nobutake Kamiya.
There are some funny bits, for sure, though I can't remember what they were now.
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