Fireworks

Cool, stylized and deeply odd, this astringently maudlin fable about the healing power of art and the enduring strength of bitter bonds of loyalty and love is wrapped in a cop movie so hard-boiled it's cracked. Tough-guy police detective Nishi ("Beat" Takeshi Kitano) is at the end of his rope, sick to death of running down punks and gangsters, haunted by the death of his colleague Tanaka (Makoto Ashikawa), the terminal illness of his wife Miyuki (Kayoko Kishimoto) and the despair of his best friend Horibe (Ren Osugi). Paralyzed by a sadistic yakuza, abandoned by his family and unable to work, Horibe is suicidal, until Nishi's gift of a box of art supplies al...