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Fireworks

Name: Fireworks
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1997-10-30
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.666

★ 7,7 /10 (776 Votes)

1997 JA 103 min

Overview

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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Release date

30/10/1997

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776

Popularity

2.0

Work is all I've ever known.

Genres

Crime Drama

Status

Released

Original title

HANA-BI

Language

Runtime

103 min

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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

Makoto Ashikawa

Tanaka

Yuko Daike

Tanaka's Widow

Tsumami Edamame

Businessman Throwing Rocks

Yûrei Yanagi

Chef #1

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Sujitarô Tamabukuro

Chef #2

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Motoharu Tamura

Chief Detective

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Hitoshi Nishizawa

Yakuza Head

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Hiromi Kikai

Yakuza Henchman #1

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Shoko Kitano

Young Girl Flying a Kite

Yoshiyuki Morishita

Yakuza Henchman #2

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Junichiro Asano

Yakuza Henchman #3

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Kazuhiro Osada

Yakuza Henchman #4

Manzo Shinra

Man Shot in the Face

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Tetsu Sakuma

Yakuza Henchman #5

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Riba Matsumi

Maid at the Inn

Miki Fujitani

Florist Clerk

Keiko Yamamoto

Nurse A

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Kiyoko Kitazawa

Nurse B

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Ai Kishina

Girl in the Junkyard

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Banri Nakamura

Kiosk Salesclerk

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Masahiro Naya

Detective at Stakeout #1

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Takayuki Konishi

Detective at Stakeout #2

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Yûzô Yada

Temple Priest

Kanji Tsuda

Man under Interrogation

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Yôichi Nagai

Cop Driving an Unmarked Car

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Kôsuke Ôta

Bartender

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Muhômatsu

Construction Worker

Omiya no Matsu

Restaurant Client

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Shiyô Kosuga

Brat #1

Gambino Kobayashi

Brat #2

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Al Kitago

Man Selling Taxi

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Yûji Aikawa

Woman Walking in Mall (uncredited)

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Hiroshi Umeda

Male Bank Clerk #1 (uncredited)

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Kenji Yamagami

Male Bank Clerk #2 (uncredited)

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Tomoya Naitô

Male Bank Clerk #3 (uncredited)

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Katsuya Takamatsu

Male Bank Clerk #4 (uncredited)

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Yasufumi Sakamaki

Male Bank Clerk #5 (uncredited)

Atsushi Ito

Male Bank Clerk #6 (uncredited)

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Mitsuyo Ishigaki

Female Bank Clerk #1 (uncredited)

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Ayako Masuya

Female Bank Clerk #2 (uncredited)

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Sumiko Takai

Female Bank Clerk #3 (uncredited)

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Mariko Chiba

Female Bank Clerk #4 (uncredited)

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Miho Kitahara

Female Bank Clerk #5 (uncredited)

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Yoshiko Andô

Female Bank Clerk #6 (uncredited)

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Kaoru Sugiyama

Female Bank Clerk #7 (uncredited)

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Kikuo Itô

Male Bank Customer #1 (uncredited)

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Shûji Ôtsuki

Male Bank Customer #2 (uncredited)

Hidetoshi Kawaya

Male Bank Customer #3 (uncredited)

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Koichiro Hama

Male Bank Customer #4 (uncredited)

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Masaru Takahashi

Male Bank Customer #5 (uncredited)

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Ritsuyo Ono

Male Bank Customer #6 (uncredited)

Yôko Imamoto

Female Bank Customer #1 (uncredited)

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Kiyoko Negishi

Female Bank Customer #2 (uncredited)

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Saki Kaneko

Female Bank Customer #3 (uncredited)

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Kaoru Tomoe

Female Bank Customer #4 (uncredited)

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Ayu Nakagawa

Female Bank Customer #5 (uncredited)

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Maiko Watanabe

Female Bank Customer #6 (uncredited)

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Kazue Fujita

Female Bank Customer #7 (uncredited)

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Yuki Iida

Female Bank Customer #8 (uncredited)

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Rieko Motohashi

Female Bank Customer #9 (uncredited)

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Ryôta Koyama

Grandson Visiting Temple (uncredited)

Takao Toji

Man with Grandson (uncredited)

Matsumi Fuku

Landlady (uncredited)

Tokio Seki

田舎の親父

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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 …

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There's greatness in there, for sure, but <em>'Fireworks'</em> (or, the better title, <em>'Hana-bi'</em>) drags on for too long. I was with it for the first 45-55 minutes, but the final portion of the film really dragged for me; aside from a few moments, it kinda just repeats the same sorta scenes over and over. Like, personally, I got it... needed a bit more to it, in my opinion. There are some very good performances, no doubt. Takeshi Kitano is the obvious star of the show, though I was also impressed by Ren Osugi - who is just as excellent as the aforementioned writer, producer and di…

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You wouldn't want to be policeman "Nishi" (Takeshi Kitano). His young child died a few years earlier, his wife is terminally ill in hospital and his partner at work takes a bullet that renders him paraplegic. Unsurprisingly, he hits the skids a bit and his priorities become compromised. When his wife is told she can come home, he is determined to make that happen - but where will the money come from to facilitate her? Well he goes and borrows some money from some unsavoury types he has encountered in his career. With his sole raison d'être now being to spend as much time as he can with his ail…

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