Fireworks

Fireworks

Work is all I've ever known.

1997•1h 43m•7.7/10

CrimeDrama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.7/10(753)

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.

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Production

Bandai Visual, Office Kitano, TV Tokyo, Tokyo FM

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Takeshi Kitano

Takeshi Kitano

Yoshitaka Nishi

Kayoko Kishimoto

Kayoko Kishimoto

Nishi's Wife

Ren Osugi

Ren Osugi

Horibe

Susumu Terajima

Susumu Terajima

Nakamura

Tetsu Watanabe

Tetsu Watanabe

Junkyard Owner

Hakuryu

Yakuza Hitman

Yasuei Yakushiji

Criminal

Tarô Itsumi

Tarô Itsumi

Kudo

Kenichi Yajima

Kenichi Yajima

Doctor

Makoto Ashikawa

Makoto Ashikawa

Tanaka

Yuko Daike

Yuko Daike

Tanaka's Widow

Tsumami Edamame

Tsumami Edamame

Businessman Throwing Rocks

Yûrei Yanagi

Yûrei Yanagi

Chef #1

Sujitarô Tamabukuro

Chef #2

Motoharu Tamura

Chief Detective

Hitoshi Nishizawa

Yakuza Head

Hiromi Kikai

Yakuza Henchman #1

Shoko Kitano

Young Girl Flying a Kite

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yakuza Henchman #2

Junichiro Asano

Yakuza Henchman #3

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