# Outrage Coda (アウトレイジ 最終章)
**Outrage Coda** (アウトレイジ 最終章, *Autoreiji Saishusho*, also known as Outrage: Final Chapter) is a 2017 Japanese yakuza film directed, written, and edited by [Takeshi Kitano](https://www.edgepedia.org/takeshi-kitano), and the third and final installment of his Outrage trilogy. It stars Kitano, under his acting name Beat Takeshi, as the former yakuza boss Otomo, and follows a power struggle that spreads from South Korea to the Japanese crime syndicates Sanno and Hanabishi.[1](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/172067) • [2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6293042)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Japanese release | October 7, 2017, rated R-15, runtime 104 minutes[1](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/172067) |
| Director | Takeshi Kitano (director, screenplay, and editing)[3](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2018/films/outrage-coda) |
| Series position | Third film in the Outrage trilogy, after Outrage (2010) and Outrage Beyond (2012)[4](https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/press/5934?entry_id=5392) |
| Setting | Japan and South Korea, the largest-scale setting in the series[4](https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/press/5934?entry_id=5392) |
| Music and cinematography | Score by Keiichi Suzuki; cinematography by Katsumi Yanagijima[3](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2018/films/outrage-coda) |
| Distribution | Warner Bros. Pictures and Office Kitano[1](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/172067) |
| Reception | IMDb 6.4/10; Metascore 58; Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer 60% from 5 reviews[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6293042) • [5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/outrage-coda/critic-reviews/) • [6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outrage_coda) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
After the massive war between the Kanto-based Sanno-kai and the Kansai-based Hanabishi-kai, the former Otomo-gumi boss Otomo has crossed to South Korea, where he works under Chairman Chang, a fixer who controls the underworld of both Japan and Korea.[1](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/172067) Hanada, a young Hanabishi executive staying in Korea on business, causes a serious incident in Otomo's Korean territory, killing one of Chang's men, and the enraged Otomo and his men return to Japan.[1](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/172067) • [7](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPa9o4q4hCk)
The Hanabishi-kai, which had largely absorbed the Sanno-kai after the previous film's war, is itself showing signs of internal strife between Nomura, the chairman's son-in-law and a former securities man who believes money is everything, and the veteran executive Nishino.[8](https://mihocinema.com/outrage-saisyuusyou-48089) Hanada and the Hanabishi officer Nakada try to settle the Korean matter privately with an apology to Chairman Chang, but Chang's anger forces them to report the situation to the Hanabishi leadership; Nomura and Nishino then bring 100 million yen as a formal apology.[8](https://mihocinema.com/outrage-saisyuusyou-48089)
Each man carries his own scheme: Nishino intends to profit from the indebted Hanada, while Nomura plans to have Nakada ambush and kill Nishino on the return journey. Nishino, seeing through the plot, forces Hanada at gunpoint to pretend he was killed by Chang, and Nomura then orders Hanada to retaliate against Chang.[8](https://mihocinema.com/outrage-saisyuusyou-48089) Hanada uses the Sanno-kai's Kimura-gumi, under boss Yoshioka, to attack Chang, and the attempt fails.[8](https://mihocinema.com/outrage-saisyuusyou-48089)
When news of the attack reaches Otomo in Korea, he resolves to return to Japan both to repay his debt to Chang and to avenge his sworn brother killed in the earlier war. Entering on a forged passport, he is detained by the detective Shigeta, his adversary from the previous film, but is soon released through Chang's arrangements. Otomo and Ichikawa then kill Yoshioka, the Kimura-gumi boss who attacked Chang.[8](https://mihocinema.com/outrage-saisyuusyou-48089)
Nishino meets Otomo and Ichikawa, apologizes for Hanada's conduct in Korea, and proposes killing Chairman Nomura at a celebration party for a Hanabishi officer's release from prison. On the day, Nomura fails to appear and Otomo is missing from his position; Nishino improvises by taking the microphone and telling the assembled members to choose between himself and Nomura. Otomo and Ichikawa then burst in with a machine gun, killing many members while Hanada escapes. Nishino shifts the blame to Nomura, hands him over to Otomo, and Nomura is killed.[8](https://mihocinema.com/outrage-saisyuusyou-48089)
## Production and context
[The Outrage](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-outrage) series was the first series project Takeshi Kitano directed himself, depicting the wars of men in the underworld; Outrage opened in 2010 and Outrage Beyond in 2012, and the series had accumulated a Japanese box office of over 2.2 billion yen before the third film.[4](https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/press/5934?entry_id=5392) Producer Masayuki Mori of Office Kitano recalled that after Outrage Beyond, which ended with an open, suggestive finale, Kitano wanted to depict what became of Otomo and to give the story a sense of closure, which is why the film was titled a final chapter; the series thus became a trilogy.[9](https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20171013-outrage/2)
**Cast.** Returning from the previous film are Beat Takeshi, Toshiyuki Nishida, Sansei Shiomi, Hakuryu, Tatsuo Nadaka, Teruyuki Kagawa's colleague generation of hard-faced regulars including Mitsuru Matsushige and Ikuji Nakamura, and Tokio Kaneda, who plays Chairman Chang; joining the series for the first time are Nao Omori, Pierre Taki, Ren Osugi, Ittoku Kishibe, Taizo Harada, Kanji Tsuda, and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.[4](https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/press/5934?entry_id=5392) Kaneda, a Korean-Japanese businessman, made his feature film debut with this role.[10](https://akishige777.xsrv.jp/outrage-coda/)
The film closed the most recent [Venice Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/venice-film-festival) in 2017 out of competition and had its North American premiere at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal in October 2017.[11](https://2017.nouveaucinema.ca/en/films/outrage-coda)
## Reception
Critics generally described the film as a taut, stylish but cold conclusion to the trilogy. Jonathan Romney of Screen International wrote that the narrative intricacy is daunting but that the pleasure lies in watching the moves advance toward an inexorably logical climax.[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/outrage-coda/critic-reviews/) Jessica Kiang of Variety credited Kitano's sleek filmmaking, reuniting with regular cinematographer Katsumi Yanagijima and using the atonal descending motif of [Keiichi Suzuki](https://www.edgepedia.org/keiichi-suzuki)'s score, with keeping viewers seated through long stretches of gangster dialogue.[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/outrage-coda/critic-reviews/) Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter called it a swan song for a series that had seen its day, while noting its elegant visuals and humorously imaginative murders.[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/outrage-coda/critic-reviews/) The film holds a Metascore of 58, an IMDb rating of 6.4/10, and a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer of 60 percent.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6293042) • [5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/outrage-coda/critic-reviews/) • [6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outrage_coda)
The film grossed $11,983,269 worldwide.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6293042) In the United States it was released digitally on November 1, 2018, and is available on streaming services including Tubi, Plex, and the Cineverse Amazon Channel.[6](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outrage_coda) • [12](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/outrage-coda?package=plc)
## Style
The film scholar David Bordwell observed that, except for one slow-motion massacre, the violence in Outrage Coda is brusque, shocking, and over fast, erupting out of long scenes of gangster intrigue rather than building to staged confrontations.[13](https://mubi.com/en/films/outrage-coda/critics-reviews) Reviewers noted the film's world of merciless opportunism, in which the old yakuza codes have been replaced and even the police serve crime, and its pitch-black humor.[3](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2018/films/outrage-coda) The Film Stage's review described it as a gangster revenge film that favors plot over character, with violent antiheroes who talk about the plot and nothing else, and graded it B-.[14](https://thefilmstage.com/review-outrage-coda-is-playfully-complex-yakuza-revenge-tale/)
## References
1. [アウトレイジ 最終章 | あらすじ・内容・スタッフ・キャスト・配信・作品情報, 映画ナタリー](https://natalie.mu/eiga/film/172067)
2. [Outrage Coda (2017), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6293042)
3. [Outrage Coda, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018](https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2018/films/outrage-coda)
4. [「アウトレイジ 最終章」公開記念!! 北野武監督シリーズ全作品紹介, Bandai Namco / Bandai Visual press release](https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/press/5934?entry_id=5392)
5. [Outrage Coda critic reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/outrage-coda/critic-reviews/)
6. [Outrage Coda, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/outrage_coda)
7. [映画『アウトレイジ 最終章』特報【HD】, Warner Bros. official YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPa9o4q4hCk)
8. [映画『アウトレイジ 最終章』のネタバレあらすじ結末と感想, mihocinema](https://mihocinema.com/outrage-saisyuusyou-48089)
9. [北野武監督の崖っぷちと『アウトレイジ』3部作の真実, マイナビニュース](https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20171013-outrage/2)
10. [アウトレイジ/最終章 R-2752](https://akishige777.xsrv.jp/outrage-coda/)
11. [Outrage Coda, Festival du nouveau cinéma 2017](https://2017.nouveaucinema.ca/en/films/outrage-coda)
12. [Outrage Coda streaming, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/outrage-coda?package=plc)
13. [Outrage Coda critics reviews, MUBI](https://mubi.com/en/films/outrage-coda/critics-reviews)
14. [Review: 'Outrage Coda' is a Playfully Complex Yakuza Revenge Tale, The Film Stage](https://thefilmstage.com/review-outrage-coda-is-playfully-complex-yakuza-revenge-tale/)
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