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Sonatine (1993)
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
“A ferocious man sleeps here.”
Action, Crime, Thriller · 1h 34m
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.
Cast
Takeshi Kitano
Aya Kokumai
Tetsu Watanabe
Masanobu Katsumura
Susumu Terajima
Ren Osugi
Tonbo Zushi
Kenichi Yajima
Eiji Minakata
Houka Kinoshita
Rome Kanda
Crew
- Director
- Takeshi Kitano
- Screenplay
- Takeshi Kitano
- Director of Photography
- Katsumi Yanagijima
- Original Music Composer
- Joe Hisaishi
- Editor
- Takeshi Kitano
- Producer
- Ritta Saito, Takio Yoshida, Hisao Nabeshima, Masayuki Mori
Details
- Release date
- 1993-09-10
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Shochiku, Bandai Visual
- Box office
- $58,834