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Fireworks (1997)

R 03/20/1998 (US) Crime, Drama 1h 43m

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Work is all I've ever known.

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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.

Takeshi Kitano

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Takeshi Kitano

Yoshitaka Nishi
Kayoko Kishimoto

Nishi's Wife
Ren Osugi

Horibe
Susumu Terajima

Nakamura
Tetsu Watanabe

Junkyard Owner
Hakuryu

Yakuza Hitman
Yasuei Yakushiji

Criminal
Tarô Itsumi

Kudo
Kenichi Yajima

Doctor
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on March 8, 2015

Drop Dead.

Hana-bi (AKA: Fireworks) is written and directed by Takeshi Kitano. It stars Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi and Susumu Terajima. Music is by Joe Hisaishi and cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto.

Yoshikata Nishi (Kitano) is a loose cannon police detective who quits the force after a tragic incident results in his partner, Horibe (Osugi), being confined to a wheelchair. His retirement brings him the time to care more for his seriously ill wife Miyuki (Kishimoto). Nishi can find no peace, though, more so as he has borrowed money from the Yakuza to pay for his wife's needs, and t... read the rest.

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