1990

1h 36m

6.9(225 votes)

Crime

Comedy

Drama

Action

Thriller

Overview

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Yûrei Yanagi

Masaki

Yuriko Ishida

Sayaka

Takeshi Kitano

Uehara

Guadalcanal Taka

Takashi Iguchi

Dankan

Kazuo

Makoto Ashikawa

Akira

Hisashi Igawa

Otomo

Johnny Ohkura

Minamizaka

Eri Fuse

Fumiyo

Katsuo Tokashiki

Tamagi

Creative team

Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Written by: Takeshi Kitano
Produced by: Hisao Nabeshima

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