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Title: Sonatine (1993)
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| Takeshi Kitano | ... | Aniki Murakawa | |
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Aya Kokumai | ... | Miyuki |
| Tetsu Watanabe | ... | Uechi | |
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Masanobu Katsumura | ... | Ryoji |
| Susumu Terajima | ... | Ken | |
| Ren Osugi | ... | Katagiri (as Ren Ôsugi) | |
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Tonbo Zushi | ... | Kitajima |
| Ken'ichi Yajima | ... | Takahashi | |
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Eiji Minakata | ... | The Hit Man |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Hiroshi Ando | ... | Ito |
| Chris Britton | ... | Gangster with shades (as Christopher Britton) | |
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Takeshi Fukazawa | ... | Sakai |
| Bob Gunter | ... | Gangster | |
| Rome Kanda | ... | Gangster | |
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Hôka Kinoshita | ... | A member of kitajima-gumi |
A world-weary yakuza in Tokyo is assigned to take his clan to Okinawa to help settle a dispute between two factions. He's suspicious of the assignment, but he goes, and within a couple days, his role remains unclear and several of men are dead. He retreats to a house on a remote beach to wait. The first night there , he rescues a young woman from an assault, and they develop a playful relationship. Over time, it becomes clear he's been set up, sent to Okinawa so that others can take over his lucrative territory. As his clan dwindles, he plans a revenge. But, what if he's successful? What is there to life anyway? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
This is exactly what I'd do if my gang's territory was being threatened by conspiracy and rivalry in the criminal underworld - hide out on a nice beach playing fantastic-looking firework and sumo games with me mates and some random passing woman, listening to crazy old men singing in incredible voices, watching out for assassins in fishing gear and generally building myself up for a massive showdown. Beat Takeshi is a genius with this kind of stuff, he makes his gangster a real man in full 3D, hardened by a hard life but still full of uncertainty and needs, and who in the world could have outdone his deadpan but humourous face, especially in those bleak final scenes. Shame about his appalling TV "comedy" though.