Trailer - Outrage [English-subtitled]

A full trailer for Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage has been released, coinciding with the announcement that the film will be competing in the main competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month.

The film marks Kitano’s return to the hardboiled genre he became known for throughout 90s, and judging from the official promotional blurb, the story should be familiar to anyone who’s ever watched gangster films. It involves several small yakuza clans vying for the favor of the top family as their respective bosses attempt to scheme their way to the top through betrayal and deadly turf battles. Kitano plays a veteran, but low-ranking crew leader named Otomo who’s been around long enough to see the shift in his position from disposable underling to a valuable commodity in the criminal underworld. After all, if the big bosses need some dirty work done to advance their own position, it usually falls on someone like him to do it.

“Outrage” will be collaboratively released by Office Kitano and Warner Bros. on June 12, 2010 in Japan. Celluloid Dreams is handling world sales.

Sources: Yahoo! Eiga, Jason Gray, Wildgrounds