Blood & Bones (2004) (Region 3 DVD) (English Subtitled) Japanese movie

Region Coding: Region 3 (Locked)

Starring: 
Kitano Takeshi
Suzuki Kyoka
Odagiri Joe
Arai Hirofumi

Director: 
Sai Yoichi

Audio Tracks: 
Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Extended Surround, DTS-ES

Languages: 
Japanese

Subtitles: 
English, Traditional Chinese

Running Time: 
148 minutes

Distributor:
Panorama (HK)

Release Date:
12 May 2006

Synopsis:
In 1923, KIM Shun-pei left Cheju, an isolated island in the far South of Korea for Osaka, Japan, dreaming of making his fortune in a new land.

Contrary to his hopes, what was waiting for Shun-pei in Japan was a brutal life of discrimination and hard labour. With his remarkable physical strength, cunning and ruthlessness he overcomes the odds stacked against him and opens a kamaboko (steamed fish cake) factory, which before long is a success, bringing him the fortune he coveted for so long. However, with no limit to his obsession for money, Shun-pei gradually transforms himself into a ruthless loan shark.

BLOOD AND BONES paints an unflinching portrait of a man's deeply bound to his ego and obsessions and the web of turmoil his wife, mistress, children, relatives and all those around him are drawn into as a result of his choices and brutal, violent nature. Based on a true story by YAN Sogiru, Beat Takeshi portrays the epic rise and fall of a first generation Korean man in a defining role.