A Japanese movie

Just finished watching Hana-Bi.....what a movie!!!....the first time i have seen stillness cause an undercurrent of emotion so strong I could not peel my eyes away from it......Takeshi Kitano gives an excellent performance in a movie where the humour, absurdity and suddenness of life is encapsulated in a moving tale of love and redemption........it is hardly noticeable as a yakuza movie.....The silences speak for themselves.......its like watching statues come to life in a sudden burst of energy and then fall back again to their musings......and the surrealist paintings by Nishi's partner Hireke are just as thought provoking......A ex-cop gives his dying wife a last journey of love while his ex-partner, now disabled due to a shooting that he feels responsible for, paints away the thoughts of suicide in his beach house......along the way a couple of policemen who reminisce the days of the two ex-cops and a group of yakuza's who are owed money play a perfect background to a beautiful music score interposed with large portions of silence that seem the hallmark of the film......the final segment is one of the most moving and touching endings to a film that has all the markings of a true winner.....the fact that it won many awards is a minor note as it encapsulates the Japanese way of thought and a sprinking of Zen in every frame.