Boiling Point

A lanky benchwarmer with a gas-pump obsession stumbles from bunt to bust when the Yakuza lean on him. He flees south, only to find a scarred enforcer whose own ledger is equally red and who packs a meaner punch. After two hours of stares neither man wins, and nobody blinks first.

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Takeshi Kitano directed Boiling Point in 1990. See Takeshi Kitano's full filmography, where to start with Takeshi Kitano, or where to go after you've seen everything by Takeshi Kitano.

Boiling Point was released in 1990 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 96 minutes.