Boiling Point

Sep 15, 1990

1h 36m

★ 6.9

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.

Genres

Crime

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

Bandai Visual

Shochiku-Fuji Company

Boiling Point Trailers

Cast

Masaki

Yûrei Yanagi

Sayaka

Yuriko Ishida

Uehara

Takeshi Kitano

Takashi Iguchi

Guadalcanal Taka

Kazuo

Dankan

Akira

Makoto Ashikawa

Otomo

Hisashi Igawa

Minamizaka

Johnny Ohkura

Fumiyo

Eri Fuse

Tamagi

Katsuo Tokashiki

Kanai

Hitoshi Ozawa

Takuya

Rasshâ Itamae

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