Big Shots Die at Dawn

Big Shots Die at Dawn

1961 ja 97 minutes

Rating: 6.2

Plot

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)

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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

Masanobu Oki

Kōji Iwamoto

Kōji Iwamoto

Kan Hayashi

Kan Hayashi

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