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

Fireworks Trailers

Cast

Yoshitaka Nishi

Takeshi Kitano

Nishi's Wife

Kayoko Kishimoto

Horibe

Ren Osugi

Nakamura

Susumu Terajima

Junkyard Owner

Tetsu Watanabe

Yakuza Hitman

Hakuryu

Criminal

Yasuei Yakushiji

Kudo

Tarô Itsumi

Doctor

Kenichi Yajima

Tanaka

Makoto Ashikawa

Tanaka's Widow

Yuko Daike

Businessman Throwing Rocks

Tsumami Edamame

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