Tatsuya Nakamura

In an act of defiance against the apathy of modern living, Shin’ya Tsukamoto delivers a shock to the system with this orgiastic mélange of breakneck violence and dangerous obsessions. Stripped of its urban gloss, the concrete jungle of Tokyo quakes to the delirious poetry of total self-destruction.

Destabilizing the conventions of samurai cinema with his jagged montage style, Shin’ya Tsukamoto brings a feral wildness—and a synth score!—to his first period film. An ultra-violent parable written in blood, Killing cuts through the trappings of honor and masculinity with startling subversiveness.