Watch this ‘red band’ trailer for Takeshi Kitano’s crime thriller Beyond Outrage

With Beyond Outrage, action cinema master Takeshi Kitano returns to the hard boiled characters, black comedy and unflinching violence of his crime opus Outrage. This time, a manipulative police crackdown on organized crime has ignited a power struggle in the yakuza underworld.

The Sanno crime family has grown into a massive organization dominated by young executives whose new approach to running the family is causing frustration and pent-up resentment with the old-guard members. This vulnerability in the Sanno hierarchy is exactly what anti-gang detective Kataoka has been looking for, as the police force prepares a full-scale crackdown.

Kataoka wants start a war between Sanno and the neighboring Hanabishi crime family in the hopes that they destroy each other. His trump card is Otomo (Kitano) – the rumored-dead boss of a defunct family that was destroyed by the Sanno, who has just been released from prison. Otomo wants to retire from a life of crime, but finds himself drawn back in through Kataoka’s manipulations as the Sanno and Hanabishi clans teeter on the brink of an all-out war.

Written and directed by Takeshi Kitano, Beyond Outrage stars Kitano, along with Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Shun Sugata, Machiko Ono and Ken Mitsushi.

Magnolia Pictures’ Magnet Films will release Beyond Outrage on iTunes and On Demand November 28, 2013 and in theaters on January 3, 2014. Check out the red band trailer for Beyond Outrage, below.