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Blood and Bones
Overview
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Director and cast
- Yōichi Sai Director
- Takeshi Kitano as Joon-pyong Kim
- Hirofumi Arai as Masao Kim
- Kyoka Suzuki as Yong-hee Lee
- Joe Odagiri as Takeshi Park
- Yutaka Matsushige as Nobuyoshi Ko
- Tomoko Tabata as Hanako Kim
- Mari Hamada as Sadako Toritani
- Atsushi Ito as Yong-il / Young Joon-pyong
- Shuji Kashiwabara as San-myung Jang
- Kazuki Kitamura as Yoshio Motoyama
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