Some colleagues were shot on duty, and, rightly or wrongly, Nishi takes the blame.
In the new film, which he also wrote and co-edited, Kitano plays Nishi, a policeman on the slide.
"Investors were worried that finance ministers would criticise the recent weakness in the yen, " said Hiroichi Nishi of SMBC Nikko Securities.
Yet in Nishi-Koizumi in Gunma prefecture, just north of Tokyo, a town dominated by a Sanyo electronics plant, the picture is different.
Nishi, played by Kitano, dispenses some very rough justice as he comforts his ailing wife, his partner's spouse and a young police widow.
The scaffolding is supporting an exhibition by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi called Discovering Columbus, which is built around the eponymous statue, six stories up.
This Columbus Day, the Italian-American groups that traditionally lay a wreath at the base of the monument can lean it against a purple sofa in Mr. Nishi's ersatz living room.
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Known for installations that bring a new perspective to landmarks and architectural objects, Nishi has constructed a fully decorated living room in which the 13ft-tall figure of the 15th-century explorer holds centre stage.
Each of four local communities Kita-machi, Higashi-machi, Nishi-machi and Hom-machi creates a parade float that serves at once as a space to worship a deity and as a multi-level puppet theatre.
"Stocks must account for a few sessions of most positive activity in overseas markets, which have resulted in a sharply weaker yen, all of which will be tonic for buying, " said Hiroichi Nishi from SMBC Nikko Securities.
Both the defender of the island, General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), and his friend and fellow-officer Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), an Olympic equestrian before the war, are such idealized figures modest, gentle, and gallant that they lose any serious interest as characters.
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