Voted Sonatine. Features two of my favorite shoot-outs of all time: the elevator scene and the climax - the final reel (wordless but with Joe Hisashi's score ratcheting up the intensity) is my ideal of Pure Cinema. It's theme of middle-aged burnout and grappling with mortality hits me a lot harder three decades later. Ditto how Kitano at the time looked to me like a cool old badass, and when I re-watch it now looks positively youthful.
― gjoon1, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 00:18 (ten months ago) link