

Blood and Bones
Overview
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
Top Cast

Takeshi Kitano
Joon-pyong Kim

Hirofumi Arai
Masao Kim

Kyoka Suzuki
Yong-hee Lee

Joe Odagiri
Takeshi Park

Yutaka Matsushige
Nobuyoshi Ko

Tomoko Tabata
Hanako Kim

Mari Hamada
Sadako Toritani

Atsushi Ito
Yong-il / Young Joon-pyong

Shuji Kashiwabara
San-myung Jang

Kazuki Kitamura
Yoshio Motoyama
Themes & Keywords
About Blood and Bones
Blood and Bones is a drama film released in 2004 exploring themes of based on novel or book, zainichi. Directed by Yōichi Sai, it stars Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Kyoka Suzuki. In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.
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