Onibi: The Fire Within (1997)
鬼火
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.
- Date of release
- 1997-04-19
- TMDB
- 4.8 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Rokurō Mochizuki
- Collection
- No Good Middle-Aged Yakuza Trilogy
Casting
- Yoshio Harada — Noriyuki Kunihiro
- Reiko Kataoka — Asako Hino
- Show Aikawa — Naoto Tanigawa
- Kazuki Kitamura — Hideyuki Sakata (as Yasushi Kitamura)
- Ryushi Mizukami — Hanamura
- Hiroyuki Tsunekawa — Satoshi Fujima
- Yoshiaki Fujita — Kinjo
- Ei Kawakami — Yoshida
- Toshihiro Kinomoto — Aoki
- Seiroku Nakazawa — Nagashima
- Masai Ikenaga — Kizaki
- Eiji Minakata — Kanigawa
Interesting facts
Onibi: The Fire Within is a 1997 Japanese film directed by Rokuro Mochizuki.
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