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Fireworks

Name: Fireworks
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1997
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe

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.

1997 · Directed by Takeshi Kitano · 103 min · Crime · Drama · 53 frames

Tagline

Work is all I've ever known.

Crew

Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano
Cinematography: Hideo Yamamoto
Edited by: Takeshi Kitano, Yoshinori Ota
Music: Joe Hisaishi
Production design: Norihiro Isoda
Produced by: Yasushi Tsuge, Takio Yoshida, Masayuki Mori

Cast

Takeshi Kitano as Yoshitaka Nishi
Kayoko Kishimoto as Nishi's Wife
Ren Osugi as Horibe
Susumu Terajima as Nakamura
Tetsu Watanabe as Junkyard Owner
Hakuryu as Yakuza Hitman
Yasuei Yakushiji as Criminal
Tarô Itsumi as Kudo
Kenichi Yajima as Doctor
Makoto Ashikawa as Tanaka

Production

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Studios: Bandai Visual, Office Kitano, TV Tokyo, Tokyo FM
Themes: sea, farewell, beach, gambling, yakuza, loss

More by Takeshi Kitano

Broken Rage — 2024
Violent Cop — 1989
Takeshis' — 2005
A Scene at the Sea — 1991
Kids Return — 1996
Brother — 2000
Kikujiro — 1999
Outrage Coda — 2017
Outrage — 2010
Sonatine — 1993
Dolls — 2002

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