Boiling Point

1h 36m · 1990 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 3.6 / 5 on Letterboxd

Boiling Point (1990) runs 1h 36m, directed by Takeshi Kitano. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Genres: Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action, Thriller

No US streaming listed when we last checked (9 July 2026). Availability changes often.