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Fireworks
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Fireworks

Oct 30, 1997
1h 43m
★ 7.7

Work is all I've ever known.

Overview

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

Genres

Crime
Drama

Production Companies

Bandai Visual
Office Kitano
TV Tokyo
Tokyo FM

Cast

Takeshi Kitano

Yoshitaka Nishi

Takeshi Kitano

Kayoko Kishimoto

Nishi's Wife

Kayoko Kishimoto

Ren Osugi

Horibe

Ren Osugi

Susumu Terajima

Nakamura

Susumu Terajima

Tetsu Watanabe

Junkyard Owner

Tetsu Watanabe

Hakuryu

Yakuza Hitman

Hakuryu

Yasuei Yakushiji

Criminal

Yasuei Yakushiji

Tarô Itsumi

Kudo

Tarô Itsumi

Kenichi Yajima

Doctor

Kenichi Yajima

Makoto Ashikawa

Tanaka

Makoto Ashikawa

Yuko Daike

Tanaka's Widow

Yuko Daike

Tsumami Edamame

Businessman Throwing Rocks

Tsumami Edamame

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