Overview
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
MovieMagicScore Overview
Auto-generatedTakeshi Kitano directs this 1990 Japanese mix of comedy, crime, drama, and thriller, following a low-key gas-station worker and amateur ballplayer who runs afoul of local gangsters and travels in search of a way to protect himself. Along the way he crosses paths with a volatile figure nursing his own grudges. The tone is deadpan and unpredictable, swinging between mundane absurdity and sudden violence in Kitano's distinctive style. With a MagicMovieScore of 6.9, it suits viewers who appreciate offbeat crime cinema, dark humor, and stories that subvert genre expectations.
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Top Cast
Yûrei Yanagi
Masaki
Yuriko Ishida
Sayaka
Takeshi Kitano
Uehara
Guadalcanal Taka
Takashi Iguchi
Dankan
Kazuo
Makoto Ashikawa
Akira
Hisashi Igawa
Otomo
Johnny Ohkura
Minamizaka
210 ratings. The score is reasonably stable but could shift up to 0.13 as more ratings come in.
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Movie Info
Release Date
September 15, 1990
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
NR
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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