Overview
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 19, 1997
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- GAGA Communications
- Cast
- Seiroku Nakazawa,Yoshio Harada,Show Aikawa,Eiji Minakata,Ei Kawakami,Kazuki Kitamura,Masai Ikenaga,Ryuji Yamamoto,Hiroyuki Tsunekawa,Toshihiro Kinomotoand 7 more
- Director
- Rokurō Mochizuki
- Writer
- Toshiyuki Morioka
- Cinematography
- Naosuke Imaizumi
- Music
- Kenichi Kamio
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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