Big Shots Die at Dawn

Big Shots Die at Dawn

1961•1h 37m•6.4/10

CrimeAction

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.4/10(5)

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

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Production

TOHO

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Yūzō Kayama

Yūzō Kayama

Jiro

Kumi Mizuno

Kumi Mizuno

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata

Jun Tazaki

Jun Tazaki

Tadao Nakamaru

Tadao Nakamaru

Ichirō Nakatani

Ichirō Nakatani

Yukiko Shimazaki

Yukiko Shimazaki

Eijirō Yanagi

Eijirō Yanagi

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai

Ren Yamamoto

Ren Yamamoto

Senkichi Ōmura

Senkichi Ōmura

Hisashi Igawa

Hisashi Igawa

Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka

Fuyuki Murakami

Fuyuki Murakami

Hideo Sunazuka

Hideo Sunazuka

Masanobu Oki

Kōji Iwamoto

Kan Hayashi

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