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Message: [QUOTE="Deleted member 179251, post: 165294, member: 179251"] My personal favorite Kitano is Kikujiro, Hanabi, and Violent Cop, but yeah, I can see the appeal behind Sonatine a lot. It is a very deconstructing movie of traditional yakuza genre. While Yakuza and gangster films may have protagonist who have become densensitized to the violence around them they still decide to have cool action scenes or violent scenes to keep audience entertained. But in case of Sonatine, it tries to showcase the state of its protagonist's minds not through constant violence around him in violent scenarios, but also in stuff like childish games and romance, even during the [SPOILER="spoiler"] the final scene where he kills everyone, it just focuses more on his mute expression to emphasize how much the protagonist devoid of joy from killing [/SPOILER] . It is a really fascinating film and one that is definitely elevated with an equally amazing score by Hisaishi. [/QUOTE]

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