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30/10/1997 Crime, Drama 1h 43m
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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.

  1. Takeshi Kitano

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Takeshi Kitano

    Yoshitaka Nishi

  2. Kayoko Kishimoto

    Nishi's Wife

  3. Ren Osugi

    Horibe

  4. Susumu Terajima

    Nakamura

  5. Tetsu Watanabe

    Junkyard Owner

  6. Hakuryu

    Yakuza Hitman

  7. Yasuei Yakushiji

    Criminal

  8. Tarô Itsumi

    Kudo

  9. Kenichi Yajima

    Doctor

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-05-24
You wouldn't want to be policeman "Nishi" (Takeshi Kitano). His young child died a few years earlier, his wife is terminally ill in hospital and his partner at work takes a bullet that renders him paraplegic. Unsurprisingly, he hits the skids a bit and his priorities become compromised. When his wife is told she can come home, he is determined to make that happen - but where will the money come from to facilitate her? Well he goes and borrows some money from some unsavoury types he has encountered in his career. With his sole raison d'être now being to spend as much time as he can with his ai...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Japanese

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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