{"id":17486,"date":"2025-05-05T22:07:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17486"},"modified":"2025-05-05T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T02:07:37","slug":"violent-cop-1989-takeshi-kitano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17486","title":{"rendered":"Violent Cop (1989, Takeshi Kitano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>V-Cop is introduced beating up a high schooler who attacked a homeless guy, hell yeah.  The new chief likes his style but wants not to be disgraced by association, V-Cop doesn&#8217;t care, has little respect for the bosses.  Turns out cops are supplying the drug dealers, and VC&#8217;s baddie-killing investigation technique gets him fired.  He&#8217;s having a nice day as a civilian when punks kidnap his sister and a hitman stabs him and blows a bystanders&#8217;s head off.  Final showdown: VC and the hitman blast each other full of holes, he finishes off his sister, the drug trade carries on with barely a hitch.  Great theme music, a familiar Satie tune.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/violent1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>I liked the rookie partner&#8217;s expression when VC ran over a suspect:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/violent2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V-Cop is introduced beating up a high schooler who attacked a homeless guy, hell yeah. The new chief likes his style but wants not to be disgraced by association, V-Cop doesn&#8217;t care, has little respect for the bosses. Turns out cops are supplying the drug dealers, and VC&#8217;s baddie-killing investigation technique gets him fired. He&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,136,36,499,107],"class_list":["post-17486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-drugs","tag-japan","tag-police-brutality","tag-takeshi-kitano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17519,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions\/17519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}