12 Mar 2010
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A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Sonatine
A ferocious man sleeps here.
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
Top Billed Cast
国舞亜矢 Miyuki
渡辺哲 Uechi
勝村政信 Ryoji
寺島進 Ken
大杉漣 Katagiri
逗子とんぼ Kitajima
矢島健一 Takahashi
南方英二 The Hit Man
木下ほうか Kitajima Gang Member
Rome Kanda Rapist
水森コウ太 Kanamoto
夏坂祐輝 Murakawa Gang Member
津田寛治 Tsuda
Kanta Yamazaki Waiter
森下能幸 Maeda
Hiroshi Ando Ito
Takeshi Fukazawa Sakai
Koichi Kitamura Hirose
Koji Koike Okinawa Boss
Yôichi Nagai Ono
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