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

Action

Thriller

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

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Eri Fuse

Tamagi

Katsuo Tokashiki

Kanai

Hitoshi Ozawa

Takuya

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