Trailer
Blazing Fists
"With Blazing Fists, Miike takes the prison drama, the boxing movie, and the mob flick and smashes them together, broken bones and all." The Film Stage
Thu
27
Thu 27 Nov 7:45 PM
Palace Barracks, Cinema 2
General Admission
Juvenile Detention Centre inmates and best friends, Ikuto and Ryoma, attend a lecture by the real MMA fighter Mikuru Asakura and become inspired. The pair hit the gym upon their release in order to compete in Breaking Dawn, a tournament held by Mikuru, but their hoodlum pasts and unhappy mothers forcing them into factory work prevents them from properly training. Worst of all? Ikuto is innocent of the crime that sent him to Juvie in the first place. Cult director Takashi Miike's adaptation of Asakura’s autobiography Street Legend screened at the Rotterdam and Fantasia festivals, and was nominated for Best Film (Òrbita) at Sitges 2025.