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| ACTORS: | Takeshi Kitano, Aya Kokumai, Tetsu Watanabe |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Takeshi Kitano |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 10 April, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Buena Vista Home Vid |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 786936233100 |
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Customer Reviews of Sonatine
The Meditation on Time I liked this film. It's a slow moving piece that grows on you. I agree that the dialogue could have been better (or maybe it's just the translation), but I thought it was a good cross between the hypnotic style of Kurosawa and an old-fashioned gangster flick. One of the reviewers said that it was just a bunch of guys waiting around. Well... that's partly true, but I found there to be poetry in the silence - much like in "The Scent of Green Papaya". We've been so brainwashed by Hollywood films that we get "bored" when nothing is said or done. This is not an action movie. It's a meditation on time.
I see it this way... You may walk out of a bloodfest happy to have seen so many die, but... is the movie going to stay with you? It's the quiet ones that haunt you. It's the ... moments that flash in your memory - watching the waves crash against the shore as the men play russian roulette... the full moon that hangs in the sky, waiting along with them. It's in the bonding that takes place. The last few minutes of the film will stay with me.
I liked this..
Sonatine
Sonatine is a great film on all fronts. Quite different from many other Yakuza-genre films, Sonatine tends to take more of subtle and effecting itinerary than the more common violence blazing, action-oriented routes. This film is far from voided of any violence, but it uses it affectingly: in droves or dispersed, that's all the really matters. Takeshi Kitano is always excellent (from Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence to MXC :); he alone can make a film worth watching. He doesn't need to in this one though; an all a round outstanding film :).
Good Beat Takeshi movie, but DVD is full frame
Finally, this movie is coming to DVD, but I have read in various places that the movie will unfortunately be full frame, just like the video tape. The DVD makers could have at least made it widescreen. So the movie gets a 3, but the DVD gets a zero for not having a widescreen version.