{"id":17589,"date":"2025-06-12T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2025-06-11T22:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T02:27:04","slug":"fireworks-1997-takeshi-kitano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17589","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks (1997, Takeshi Kitano)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a minute (twenty years) since I&#8217;ve seen this.  Officer Kitano lives a depressing life in forced retirement with his sick wife, one friend dead, another crippled and suicidal, and loansharks after him.  So he robs a bank, funds the suicidal friend&#8217;s new painting hobby, and takes his wife to the beach, fighting off the gangsters and capitulating to the cops.  <\/p>\n<p>Won the top prize at Venice, same year as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4556\">Ossos<\/a><\/em>, <em>Chinese Box<\/em>, <em>The Tango Lesson<\/em>, and <em>4 Little Girls<\/em>.  As usual, <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/thejoshl\/film\/fireworks-1997\/\">Josh Lewis gets it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fireworks1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/fireworks2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a minute (twenty years) since I&#8217;ve seen this. Officer Kitano lives a depressing life in forced retirement with his sick wife, one friend dead, another crippled and suicidal, and loansharks after him. So he robs a bank, funds the suicidal friend&#8217;s new painting hobby, and takes his wife to the beach, fighting off [&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":[451,2471,2820,36,302,607,107],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-fireworks","tag-heist","tag-japan","tag-painting","tag-suicide","tag-takeshi-kitano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589","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=17589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17632,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions\/17632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}