Boiling Point
About Boiling Point
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Boiling Point (1990) is a comedy crime film directed by Takeshi Kitano. The film is filed under gun, baseball, car crash, and yakuza.
Yûrei Yanagi appears as Masaki, Yuriko Ishida as Sayaka, Takeshi Kitano as Uehara, and Guadalcanal Taka as Takashi Iguchi. At 96 minutes long, it arrived in September 1990.
The screenplay is by Takeshi Kitano. American members can watch it on AsianCrush.
Black Rain, The Toxic Avenger Unrated, and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 make useful companions to Boiling Point, all filed under gangster, japan, and police. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 228 votes and it carries a NR rating.