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Reigniting Japanese Tradition with Hana-Bi
- Cinema Journal
- University of Texas Press
- 40, Number 4, Summer 2001
- pp. 55-80
- 10.1353/cj.2001.0013
- Article
- Additional Information
This article interrogates Kitano "Beat" Takeshi's Hana-Bi (Fireworks, 1997) for its appropriation of traditional Japanese iconography and its insertion into a global marketplace for Asian auteur-gangster films.