International superstar 'Beat' Takeshi Kitano combines cool violence and powerful emotion to reinvent the gangster film genre in his explosive and critically acclaimed masterpiece Violent Cop.

Takeshi plays renegade cop Azuma who employs his own methods to get results. But he gets seriously involved in a web of deception when he tries to save a corrupt colleague who is up to his neck in drugs and organised crime. Soon Azuma has to face up to a sadistic and ruthless Yakuza when his sister is kidnapped and drugged...