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The first details of Takeshi Kitano’s secretive project Broken Rage have been revealed ahead of its world premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival.

It has emerged that the latest feature by the veteran Japanese actor and filmmaker is the project that Amazon MGM Studios announced it was producing in June. It means that Broken Rage is the first first Japanese film produced for streaming to be officially selected for Venice and will premiere at the festival on September 6. The feature will stream exclusively on Prime Video in 2025.

When first announced as part of the Venice line-up, no plot details or cast were revealed,...

In the 1960s, director Kinji Fukasaku created what would be the ultimate yakuza-sage for years to come with his “Battles Without Honor and Humanity”-series. While the various features of the series can be regarded as great entertainment on the one hand, they gain much more value when considered as a reflection on human greed, power and manipulation. Over the course of his career, director Takeshi Kitano has made quite a number of features, such as “Sonatine” or “Brother”, which would blend these themes with a certain poetic or philosophical approach, depending on your point of view. However, with the “Outrage”-series, he attempted to create his own version of Fukasaku's epic, albeit with a much more cynical undertone.

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The second entry into the “Outrage”-series, “Beyond Outrage”, takes place five years after the incidents of “Outrage”, with the...

August is here, and so is a brand new collection of additions from the ever-expanding Plex. The free streaming service is adding another two dozen titles to its library of over 50,000 TV series and movies, and whether you’re in the mood for a found-footage horror movie like “V/H/S” or an LGBTQ+ rom-com like “Life Partners,” your watchlist likely just got a little longer.

Check out our top picks for the coming month and the full list below!

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The 2012 mystery-thriller set in 1990s Belfast stars Andrea Riseborough as an active member of the Ira who becomes an informant for MI5 in order to protect her son’s welfare. The spy drama also stars Clive Owens, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Brid Brennan, David Wilmot, and more.

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In the early ’90s, Japan’s Takeshi “Beat” Kitano was on a roll, with a superb string of nuanced crime movies that stood in stark contrast to the good-vs.-evil bullet operas that were coming out of Hong Kong at the time. Kitano’s darkly funny cynicism (who else could have made Violent Cop?) made him stand out by miles, but it soon became his weakness, as became evident in the lean period after the success of Zatoichi in 2013. The experimental, semi-autobiographical trilogy that followed — Takeshis’, Glory to the Filmmaker and Achilles and the Tortoise — seemed to offer little more than self-sabotage, the work of a frustrated artist trying to take a blowtorch to his populist image without much thought for the future.

The collateral damage was his international reputation, which took a hit to the extent that his next trilogy, the Outrage series, generally was received as the half-hearted work of a bored auteur.

In the last decade, there has been a flourishing of films in which ageing heroes demonstrate that there is more than petanque and bingo in post-retirement life. Franchises like “Red” and “The Expendables” satisfy the collective desire to stay active and fit and never get old, and are also a vehicle for recycling old and beloved stars. But Kitano’s old bad guys of his “Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen” are more “amiable losers” than their Hollywood heroic counterparts.

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Ryuzo is a non-affective grandfather, with a turbulent past as a member of a Yakuza “family” who is not ready yet to stay calm and sit on an armchair. When not terrorizing the children of the neighborhood and insulting his daughter-in-law, Ryuzo spends his time wearing a “wife-beater” vest showing off his gang tattoos in plain sight and training with the bokken (the wooden katana) under...

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-liang)

Though far better known by its English title, the appropriately elegiac Goodbye, Dragon Inn, Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 masterpiece bears a rather different name in Mandarin (rendered here via pinyin): Bú sàn, which roughly translates to “never leaving,” or—if one prefers the Sartre connotation—“no exit.” It forms the root of two distinctly contradictory Chinese idioms, which perfectly encapsulate the lamentation and beauty of Tsai’s film: Tiān xià méi yǒu bù sàn de yán xí, the infamous “all good things must come to an end,” and Bù jiàn bù sàn, which more or less means “even if we don’t see each other, don’t give up and leave,” or “I’m not leaving until I see you.

Hirofumi Arai, an actor who has appeared in many major Japanese films of the past two decades, was arrested by Tokyo police on Friday. He has been charged with the offense of “forcible intercourse” or rape.

The move stems from Arai’s alleged encounter with an unnamed woman dispatched from a massage service to Arai’s residence on July 1 of last year. According the police report, Arai committed violent acts against the woman, including “forcible intercourse.”

Arai has reportedly denied some of the charges. His agency, Anore, has told the media that it is not at present in touch with Arai, and cannot reply to the report of his arrest.

Public broadcaster Nhk immediately halted sales of ten programs in which Arai was involved, including the 2015 mystery drama “64.” Other projects involving the star are likely to be affected, including the Masahide Ichii drama “Typhoon Family,” which is set for a June release through Kino Films.

“I still have something to do.”

“Don’t be too reckless.” Shortly after the release of “Beyond Outrage”, the first sequel he filmed to this day, Kitano stated how he wanted to conclude his modern day-narrative on the yakuza. Besides the financial success of the last two films, a conclusion seems to be the logical next step after focusing on the hierarchy within the underworld (“Outrage”) and its evolution to a business (“Beyond Outrage”). The last entry into the series would be centered around the individual and highlight the lasting consequences of Otomo’s actions and those of the other characters.

Outrage Coda is screening at the Toronto Japanese Film Festival

Despite their roots within the cinema of directors like Ken Takakura or Kinji Fukasaku, Kitano emphasizes how he regards his films as different from these traditions. Even though his approach remains stylized, the image of the yakuza as an...

It's been seven years already since Kitano Takeshi decided that he still had some things left to say about the Yakuza and their world. After taking a break from the genres and themes that turned him into an admired cult director across the globe, Kitano returned to the shady underworld of the Japanese mob with Outrage in 2010 (you can travel back in time to our review roundup here). Of course, being the critical success that it was, people were left wanting for more. And so thankfully Kitano came back with the second chapter of the series, Beyond Outrage, back in 2014. Even though this time it wasn't as universally well received as the first one (though our own Ryland Aldrich was more than happy...

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Today, New York independent distributor Film Movement Classics unveils the brand-new poster for Takeshi Kitano’s 1990 film “Boiling Point,” designed exclusively for retrospective screenings by comic book artist Benjamin Marra. Marra designed the film’s one-sheet with a colorful, stylized illustration highlighting baseball and the Yakuza. Check it out below.

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The film follows Masaki (Yûrei Yanagi), an unassuming gas station attendant who is a member of the losing sandlot baseball team The Eagles. After he runs afoul of a belligerent yakuza, The Eagles manager, an ex-yakuza himself, gets involved, setting Masaki on a haphazard quest for guns in Okinawa with his friend Kazuo (Duncan). There they are befriended by the extremely eccentric yakuza boss Takashi (Takeshi “Beat” Kitano), leading them straight into the tangled web of organized crime.

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Baywatch: David Hasselhoff, who starred in the television series Baywatch as lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, will join Dwayne Johnson in a big-screen version of Baywatch. Johnson, who is playing Buchannon in the movie, says that Hasselhoff is in "the best shape he's been in years," though he did not specify what role Hasselhoff would be playing. The movie is scheduled for release on May 19, 2017. [Facebook] Ghost in the Shell: Takeshi "Beat" Kitano (above in Beyond Outrage), a veteran actor and filmmaker, will join Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell. Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) is set to direct the live-action movie, based on a Japanese manga about a counter-cyberterrorist organization. Kitano is a prolific and popular...

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Ghost in the Shell: Takeshi Kitano (above in Beyond Outrage), a veteran actor and filmmaker, will join Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell. Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman) is set to direct the live-action movie, based on a Japanese manga about a counter-cyberterrorist organization. Kitano is a prolific and popular presence in Japan on television and in films; his last appearance in a Hollywood production came in 1995's Johnny Mnemonic. [Cinema Today via TwitchFilm]...

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Director Wang talks to ScreenDaily about working with Takeshi Kitano.

Us-based director Wayne Wang, known for films such as The Joy Luck Club, Smoke and Maid In Manhattan, wrapped his shoot with iconic Japanese actor Beat Takeshi, a.k.a. Takeshi Kitano, for suspense mystery While The Women Are Sleeping in Tokyo on Saturday (July 11).

Kitano, the award-winning actor/director of films such as Zatoichi, Beyond Outrage and Hana-bi, uses the name Beat Takeshi when he works as an actor or performer.

Based on Javier Marias’ short story of the same title published in The New Yorker, While The Women Are Sleeping debuted in early form at Busan’s 2013 Asian Project Market.

Shot mostly in Izu, the film is about Sahara (Kitano), a mysterious older man who is at a resort with his young girlfriend. It is told from the point of view of Kenji, a writer who is also visiting the resort for a week with...

The police have a reputation to protect.

Picking up where Outrage (2010) left off, Beyond Outrage (2012) goes a bit further.  With Otomo (Takeshi Kitano) in prison and the Sanno yakuza family in ascension, the police (particularly Det. Kataoka (Fumiyo Kohinata)) stir the pot by pitting one set of gangsters against another.  When Kataoka tries and fails to use the ambitious Tomita (Akira Nakao) to lure the Hanabishi into a war with the Sanno, he goes back to Otomo--a badass killer of the old school--to team up with Kimura (Hideo Nakano)--who, incidentally, stabbed Otomo in jail for killing his (Kimura's) former boss and permanently, hideously scarring his face--to use their mutual grudge against Kato (Tomokazu Miura), the current Chairman of the Sanno (who, incidentally, got to that position by murdering his former boss in the last movie) and bring the Hanabishi into war with the Sanno.  It seems a bit complicated,...

To celebrate the release of Tony Jaa's The Protector 2 and Kitano Takeshi's Beyond Outrage on DVD in Australia, Madman is giving you, our dear readers, the chance to win a DVD pack that includes some of the best Thai action and Kitano Takeshi films. First prize (one winner): All of the pictured movies on DVD - The Protector 2, Ong Bak 1, 2 and 3, Chocolate, Outrage, Beyond Outrage, Kitano Takeshi Boxset (Violent Cop, Boiling Point and Sonatine)Second prize (three winners): Either The Protector 2 or Beyond Outrage on DVD.For a chance to win, all you have to do is to follow these two steps:1) Tell me in 25 words or less, which of the movies in the prize pack you like the most and...

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As usual, this first weekend of the new year offered few new movies. The market is packed with awards contenders in varying stages of release, with Oscar-qualifiers that opened last week dominating the action. Most of the awards pictures showed minor drops or even increases. Most of them won't break wide until next weekend's Golden Globes weekend and the Oscar nominations the following Thursday. For these films, their results on this crucial weekend reveal how much further they might go.  Four awards pictures that are already in the top 10 will easily top $100 million--"The Wolf of Wall Street," "American Hustle," "Saving Mr. Banks," and animated "Frozen."  The new premieres were each on a single New York screen--and Takeshi Kitano's "Beyond Outrage" (Magnolia), which played fall 2012 festivals and has been on video on demand for weeks, and Giuseppe Tornatore's "The Best Offer" (IFC) didn't report grosses. The self-distributed "In...

During this season of award holdovers, it's time to play catch-up. There's not much to get excited about, unless you're into the fifth iteration of the found footage horror franchise "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones." Also in the mix are Takeshi Kitano's 2012 Venice Golden Lion contender "Beyond Outrage," James Franco's experimental doc "Interior. Leather Bar" and Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore's "The Best Offer," starring Geoffrey Rush. Trailers after the jump.But above all, head to select theaters in NY and La for Peter Berg's harrowing, unmissable wartime thriller "Lone Survivor," which these screens will hold over until the film goes wide next Friday, January 10. Prospects are looking up in a fierce awards arena as this well-made real-life war story followed its PGA shutout with a WGA nomination. Here's our interview with director Berg, who fought hard to keep his survival film authentic and unremitting.There seems...

Any fan of Japanese cinema from the last few decades knows: If there is a gun in your face, the last person you want to see on the other end is Kitano Takeshi (or rather his actor-ly persona Beat Takeshi). That no nonsense, guns-blazing side of Kitano took a hiatus for a few years while he pursued a more sensitive artistic side, but returned two years ago with his Yakuza comeback tour de force Outrage (you can find our review roundup here). One dose of Kitano ultra-violence wasn't nearly enough, and the man has heard our pleas, returning with the second part of the saga, Beyond Outrage. While it has all the trappings of the middle chapter of what's bound to be a trilogy, the...

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This weekend, sinister forces return in "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones;" and, in limited release, Takeshi Kitano takes action in "Beyond Outrage," and Sharlto Copley wakes up in an "Open Grave."

Written and directed by Christopher Landon, "Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones" continues the theme of mysterious forces laying claim to unsuspecting victims. In the fifth installment of the lucrative franchise, Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) discovers an inhuman bite mark on his arm, seemingly a sign that he has become "marked." As the ominous forces pursue Jesse, his family and friends attempt to ward off the dark spirits and save him.

Playing in limited release: Written and directed by Takeshi Kitano, "Beyond Outrage" also stars Kitano as a former Yakuza, who -- after getting released from prison -- enacts revenge against the Sanno-Kai crime syndicate. In "Open Grave," a man (Copley) awakes in a hole full of dead bodies. With no memory of the event,...

Suckas better recognize, because Takeshi Kitano is back, and he ain’t suffering no fools. “Beyond Outrage” is the most violent and brutal of Kitano’s body of work yet, and considering the writer-director-star is known for his shocking, graphic Yakuza dramas, that’s something worth noting. As back-to-basics as “Outrage” seemed, coming after a string of quieter, more experimental fare from the filmmaker that never even reached American shores, “Beyond Outrage” takes the standard gangster movie template and blasts it out of the water. Yet, for all it’s violence, “Beyond Outrage” is unmistakably a work of the master himself, feeling like a more contemporary chapter of the book Kitano’s been writing for a long time, in a similar manner as Martin Scorsese tackling “The Departed.” Kitano’s Otomo was double crossed beyond double crossed at the close of “Outrage,” but what few of the characters realize is that he’s survived.

With 2010's Outrage, Takeshi "Beat" Kitano returned to the gangster genre that first brought him big-screen success, depicting a modern yakuza underworld structured like a hierarchical corporation and populated by men who — dispensing with any Godfather-style codes of conduct — perpetually schemed to get to the top. It was a nasty, convoluted affair, shot with a methodical chilliness that reflected its characters' efforts to backstab their way to power. For all their unprincipled killing, the movie's biggest victim was the very idea of honor among today's thieves.

The apparent death of Kitano's protagonist Otomo, as well as the fact that the story made its point conclusively via an everyone-falls-down finale, suggests that Beyond Outrage was a re...

Title: Beyond Outrage (Aka Outrage Beyond) Directed by: Takeshi Kitano Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tomokazu Miura, Fumiyo Kohinata Running time: 112 minutes, Rated R, Available now on VOD/iTunes – In theaters 01/03/14 The anticipated sequel to Outrage. The police have organized a crackdown of the two major Yakuza crime sydicates – the Sanno and Hanabishi. Detective Kataoka (Fumiyo Kohinata) proposes an early prison realase of Otomo (Takeshi Kitano), a former Yakuza. Kataoka hopes that Otomo will seek out revenge from being forced to serve time and take out the bosses of both syndicates. His plan works and both syndicates are forced to unite. How far will Otomo take his [ Read More ]

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Over the years, gangster films have found no shortage of viciously clever ways to inflict maximum punishment on those who wind up on the wrong side of the wrong person. But leave it to Japanese master Takeshi Kitano to discover yet another entertainingly gruesome method with which to dispatch someone who has unfortunately found himself on the wrong end of things.  Following 2010's "Outrage," Kitano has returned with the sequel "Beyond Outrage," writing, directing and starring in the effort. The latest finds the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families manipulated into a gang war by police detective Kataoka, and in the middle of it all is Otomo (Kitano), who is trying to get out of the game. But as you'll see here, he hasn't lost an ounce of his manner in deadly dealings, with one man strapped to a chair and staring down a baseball aimed directly at this head. We'll...

Japanese crime master Kitano Takeshi returns with Beyond Outrage - retitled from the previous Outrage Beyond - and with the film now available on VOD and iTunes prior to the January theatrical release Twitch is proud to present an exclusive new clip.With Beyond Outrage, action cinema master Takeshi Kitano returns to the hard boiled characters, black comedy and unflinching violence of his crime masterpiece Outrage. This time, a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky power struggle in the yakuza underworld.The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective...

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Outrage was a bit of a letdown. It was an often tedious movie, full of unlikable characters and featuring a plot that was both hard to follow and hardly worth following. Somehow, it made a yakuza turf war seem utterly boring. Beyond Outrage fixes many of the mistakes of its predecessor, wisely introducing more character development, making some of those characters more sympathetic, and upping the ante on the violence. In addition, it adds a playfulness and sense of humor that was woefully missing from the original.

The movie doesn’t start off particularly promisingly. Takeshi Kitano, who wrote, directed, and stars in the film, does not show up until a full 24 minutes into it. That’s 24 minutes to get to the guy who is ostensibly the film’s protagonist, and certainly its most recognizable face. All the time until then is spent catching the audience up on all the...

Following the release of its uncensored red band trailer last week, Magnet Releasing has put out a more palatable preview for Japanese action maestro Takeshi Kitano's "Beyond Outrage" ahead of its preliminary stateside release at the end of the month. A sequel to Kitano's 2010 "Outrage," this new installment catches up with the Sanno crime family as it has grown exponentially into a massive organization within the yakuza underworld. But with tensions rising between new affiliates and old-guard members and a full-scale police crackdown on the horizon, the crime clan must resort to increasingly desperate and brutal measures to maintain their supremacy. "Beyond Outrage" will be released iTunes and On Demand on November 28 before hitting theaters on January 3.

Don’t quite know why we need another trailer for Takeshi Kitano's superb gangland thriller Beyond Outrage when the previous red band one did such a good job. But in the spirit of twos always better than one, we thought it worth a mention. Outrage is on demand November 28, 2013 and in theaters January 3, 2014. Synopsis: The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for, as the police force prepares a full-scale crackdown. Kataoka wants start a war between Sanno and the neighboring Hanabishi crime family in the hopes that they destroy each other. His trump card is Otomo (Kitano) – the rumored-dead boss of a defunct family that was destroyed by the Sanno,...

Magnolia Pictures are set to drop Takeshi Kitano's gangland thriller Beyond Outrage onto an unsuspecting U.S public and they’ve just released a red band trailer to whet our appetites. Kitano returns to the hard boiled characters, black comedy and unflinching violence of his crime masterpiece Outrage. This time, a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky power struggle in the yakuza underworld. We don’t need to watch it we already know it very good, but if you haven’t seen it we recommend heading to the link right now. Beyond Outrage is on demand November 28, 2013 and in theaters January 3, 2014 - Synopsis: The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for,...

Director Takeshi Kitano sure knows how to make an awesomely intense crime thriller. A red-band trailer has been released for his new film Beyond Outrage, which is a sequel to his great 2011 film Outrage. The sequel looks like it will be even better than the first movie. Here's the full synopsis,

With Beyond Outrage, action cinema master Takeshi Kitano returns to the hard boiled characters, black comedy and unflinching violence of his crime masterpiece Outrage. This time, a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky power struggle in the yakuza underworld.The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for, as the police force prepares a full-scale crackdown.Kataoka...

Kitano Takeshi's latest gangster opus, Beyond Outrage, hits Us VOD November 28th prior to a January 3rd limited theatrical run and distributor MAgnolia Pictures have released a new red band trailer for the film.With Beyond Outrage, action cinema master Takeshi Kitano returns to the hard boiled characters, black comedy and unflinching violence of his crime masterpiece Outrage. This time, a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a tricky power struggle in the yakuza underworld. The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for, as the police...

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Written by, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano, Beyond Outrage marks the return of an action cinema master. In this sequel to his previous effort, Outrage, this film deals with “a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime which has ignited a tricky power struggle in the yakuza underworld.” The Sanno crime family has grown into a […]

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For those familiar with Takeshi Kitano‘s bloody, brutal Outrage, the notion of a sequel might be puzzling, as the original left only a few alive. But it turns out that not that many men are needed to cause chaos, as proven with the existence of the aptly-titled Beyond Outrage. Detective Kataoka has pulled the Sanno and Hannabishi crime families back into a sprawling gang war that results in utter mayhem. When Otomo (who survived the first movie, good for him!) wants out, the consequences are enormous and the violence is amplified; watch out for that pesky power drill as a negotiation tactic. Though it seems odd to say when power tool torture was just mentioned, the trailer is laced with black humor and has its (uncomfortable) laughs. Come on – a mobster being killed by a pitching machine after someone quips that they should get together and play baseball is pretty funny. So...

A couple years ago, we had our eyes on the Cannes Film Festival selected action thriller Outrage from director Takeshi "Beat" Kitano, and now the director is back with a sequel called Beyond Outrage that ups the ante. This one premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year, and now a red band trailer has arrived to show off the film following a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime which has ignited a power struggle in the Yakuza underworld. Kitano also stars in the film as an intimidating crime boss fresh out of prison. This looks violent as hell and bad ass, so you should watch Outrage on Netflix Instant now. Here's the red band trailer for Takeshi Kitano's Beyond Outrage, originally from Yahoo: Beyond Outrage is the sequel to the 2010 film outrage, written and directed by Takeshi "Beat" Kitano, who directed his first feature in 1989, called Violent Cop,...

★★★☆☆ 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano returns to the Venice Lido this year with Outrage Beyond (Autoreiji: Biyondo, 2012), a sequel to his 2010 gangster drama Outrage. Writing, directing and editing, Kitano also stars as Otomo, a jailed Yakuza whose imminent release is making the Sanno family jittery. Both a nightclub hostess and a cop mixed up with the mob have been murdered, whilst scheming corrupt policeman Detective Kataoka's (Fumiyo Kohinata) Machiavellian scheming seems set to cause a war between the Sanno and Hanabishi families.

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The New York Film Festival will introduce a Midnight Movies sidebar for the first time this year, screening Barry Levinson’s The Bay, Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio and Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage Beyond (Autoreiji: Biyondo). The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which presents the festival, which runs from Sept. 28 to Oct. 14, also announced Friday that its first-ever Nyff Convergence, a two-day program of panels, workshops and “immersive experiences,” will be held at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center on Sept. 29 and 30. The program devoted to transmedia will include a keynote conversation with Tommy Pallota,

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It’s enough to forget that the director of Diner, The Natural, and Rain Man made a new film. More surprising, however, is letting slip the fact that it’s a found footage horror extravaganza. Everyone can get in on the fad these days, but I can’t keep track.

Barry Levinson will premiere his genre jump, The Bay, when the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off in just a few short weeks; naturally, we have our first look. Nothing about these shots necessarily communicates the found footage aesthetic — i.e., no Hud or blinking “Record” lights — or anything past “people get sores on their body.”

But Nyff, in announcing it as part of their midnight lineup, provide this rundown:

“Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Wag the Dog) takes an unexpected turn towards eco-horror in this creepfest produced by found footage pioneer Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity) about a outbreak...