Legendary Japanese actor Takeshi Kitano stars in this unflinching portrait of a man struggling to make a name for himself and raises difficult questions about Korean-Japanese identity. When Kim Shun-Pei (Kitano) emigrates from Jeju Island in Korea to Osaka in 1923, he is a young man. The intervening years have taken their toll as a lifelong fear of poverty meshes with his compulsive womanising and a capacity for violence to make him into the monster that he has now become. Charting his journey from a fish-cake business to heading up a small criminal empire as a loan shark, the web of turmoil surrounding Kim increases as those around him attempt to deal with his choices and increasingly violent nature. Is Kim a Darwinian product of his environment? Or a psychopath who’s able to flourish and exploit his surroundings?

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