Connections

100 Years of Japanese Cinema features a short clip from this film with a narration by Nagisa Oshima

Suicide with revolver in car in the countryside lane

Video case shown in a video store.

The house recreated on the set is the same that appears in Sonatine

A bullet was not in the gun was directly taken from Sonatine.

Kitano's "Sonatine" is a kind of remake of Godard's "Pierrot le fou", set in Okinawa instead of the French Riviera.

both sonatine and violent cop feature a brutal beating in a bathroom.