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Big Shots Die at Dawn
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Big Shots Die at Dawn

Apr 9, 1961
1h 37m
★ 6.4

Overview

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

Genres

Crime
Action

Production Companies

TOHO

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Cast

Yūzō Kayama

Jiro

Yūzō Kayama

Kumi Mizuno

Kumi Mizuno

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata

Jun Tazaki

Jun Tazaki

Tadao Nakamaru

Tadao Nakamaru

Ichirō Nakatani

Ichirō Nakatani

Yukiko Shimazaki

Yukiko Shimazaki

Eijirō Yanagi

Eijirō Yanagi

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai

Ren Yamamoto

Ren Yamamoto

Senkichi Ōmura

Senkichi Ōmura

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