Makoto Ashikawa

A vicious homicide detective goes rogue as he faces criminal charges for his unlawful force with a crime mob while other dirty cops go unchecked.

In his second feature film, Takeshi Kitano dives further into Japan’s underworld by way of a baseball player turned patsy in this carefully plotted road trip lined with vengeance. Boiling Point deepens Kitano’s analysis of male violence…while also featuring one of cinema’s greatest karaoke scenes.