violence

In 1923, Kim Shun-Pei moves from South Korea to Osaka (Japan). The movie shows him becoming a greedy, violent man over the years. One day he decides to build a factory of processed seafood and there, exploits his employees. Kim also abuses his wife and his entire family. After making a small fortune with his seafood factory, he closes the business and becomes a loan shark.

This certainly was well done, the actors were good, Takeshi Kitano as Kim is truly exceptional. The photography is decent and the direction is excellent.
I'm quite sure there are some passages that aren't well translated if at all - some parts of the scripts were not well explained or didn't make sense with the rest of the story.
Also, it is much too long. After more than 2 hours, the violence depicted gets to you, and you want the movie to be over really soon.

Still worth watching once.


5/10