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A Balasaur Score of 82 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 96%, Metacritic 83/100. Scores higher than 97% of the 677 1990s crime movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes96%
Metacritic83/100
803 audience votes
Key crew
- Takeshi KitanoDirector
- Takeshi KitanoScreenplay
- Joe HisaishiOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Takeshi KitanoYoshitaka Nishi
- Kayoko KishimotoNishi's Wife
- Ren OsugiHoribe
- Susumu TerajimaNakamura
- Tetsu WatanabeJunkyard Owner
- HakuryuYakuza Hitman
- Yasuei YakushijiCriminal
- Tarô ItsumiKudo
- Kenichi YajimaDoctor
- Makoto AshikawaTanaka
- Yuko DaikeTanaka's Widow
- Tsumami EdamameBusinessman Throwing Rocks
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Themes
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