Tokyo Fist

Tokyo Fist

Tokyo Fist film poster
Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Produced by Shinya Tsukamoto[1]
Screenplay by Shinya Tsukamoto[1]
Story by
  • Hisashi Saito
  • Shinya Tsukamoto[1]
Starring
  • Kahori Fujii
  • Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Kôji Tsukamoto
Music by Chu Ishikawa[1]
Cinematography Shinya Tsukamoto[1]
Edited by Shinya Tsukamoto[1]
Production
company
Kaijyu Theater[1]
Distributed by Kaijyu Theater[1]
Release dates
Running time
 87 minutes[1]
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Tokyo Fist (東京フィスト ＴＯＫＹＯ　ＦＩＳＴ) is a 1995 Japanese film. It was directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, who also stars in the film along with his brother Kôji Tsukamoto and Kahori Fujii. The film had its premier in September 1995 at the Turin Film Festival in Italy.

Plot

The film tells about a Japanese door-to-door insurance salesman, Tsuda Yoshiharu, who takes up boxing after some chance meetings with a former high school friend, Kojima Yakuji. Tsuda lives a more or less uneventful life. He has a fiance, Hizuru, who one day invites Kojima in to Tsuda's apartment. Kojima comes onto Hizuru, who rejects him. Still, Tsuda finds out and gets enraged at Kojima, but Kojima beats Tsuda to a pulp and humiliates him to the point where it strains his relationship with Hizuru. Hizuru is intrigued by the animalistic Kojima, and ends up moving in with him. She also starts to pierce herself and get tattoos. She wants to box, but is denied that life by the surprisingly cowardly Kojima, who says she is a scary freak of a woman.

Tsuda still has feelings for Hizuru, and he keeps trying to win her back, leading to a confrontation where they bond by beating each other's faces to a pulp (Tsuda is quite mutilated in the process). In the end, Kojima and Tsuda end up in a sparring match in their boxing club, which leads to Tsuda getting beaten again, while Kojima goes on to win a real match, with no regard to his own well-being, afterwards. Kojima wins the match, but both he and Tsuda's faces begin to break apart and bleed profusely, suggesting fatal wounds.

Cast

Release

Tokyo Fist premiered in September 1995 at the Turin Film Festival in Italy.[2] It received theatrical release in Japan on October 21, 1995.[1]

Reception

In Japan, Tokyo Fist was placed on some publications best of the year list, including Kinema Junpo.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mes 2005, p. 213.
  2. 1 2 Mes 2005, p. 119.

References

  • Mes, Tom (2005). Iron Man. The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Fab Press. ISBN 1 903254 35 3. 


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