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Die Hard : Takagi's Death

Gruber (Alan Rickman) kills Takagi (James Shigeta) after failing to get the code for the vault locks. Mclane (Bonnie Bedelia) secretly watches nearby.

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beat, event, close-up, cut on action, diegetic sound, dolly in, establishing shot, interior, match on action, medium close-up, medium shot, music, empathetic, point-of-view shot, rack focus, reaction shot, sound effects, tracking shot

Diversity in Media Representation

Asian: East Asian, Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, Migrant, White, White: White American

"Takagi's Death" in Die Hard. Directed by John McTiernan, Gordon Company, 1988, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3445

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