Fireworks

...a wondrously cinematic exercise in the exploitation of space and stillness and it confirms Kitano as both a highly modern film-maker and the heir to such classical directors as Yasujiro Ozu.

...a demonstration of what a story such as this is really about, fundamentally, after you cut out the background noise.

It would probably be unthinkable for a cop's wife in an American movie to have cancer, or for his sister to be a junkie—it would distract from the action. [...] Kitano obliterates both of those unthinkables in [...] Fireworks...

The exquisite visual compositions (which include the director's own paintings) and the melancholic score, help contribute to a remarkably lyrical and elegiac piece of cinema.

Eccentric and haunti