# Blood and Bones (2004)

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**Original title**: *血と骨*
**Runtime**: 144 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Yōichi Sai
**Written by**: Yōichi Sai, Wishing Chong
**Starring**: Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Kyoka Suzuki, Joe Odagiri, Yutaka Matsushige, Tomoko Tabata

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

1920s Osaka’s back alleys meet a Korean teen’s cutthroat rise from dockworker to kamaboko tycoon. Exploiting Korean-Japanese labor in his seafood factory, he sharpens greed into brutality across decades. Yōichi Sai’s unflinching gaze lands on a man who built an empire on bones and blood.

**Mood tags**: outsider, raw, slow-burn

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