Story Line
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
“Work is all I've ever known.”
Top Cast
Takeshi Kitano
Yoshitaka Nishi
Kayoko Kishimoto
Nishi's Wife
Ren Osugi
Horibe
Susumu Terajima
Nakamura
Tetsu Watanabe
Junkyard Owner
Hakuryu
Yakuza Hitman
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Rating
7.7/ 10
Release Date
1997-10-30
Runtime
1h 43m
Genres
CrimeDrama
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
10/10
•3/8/2015Drop Dead.
Hana-bi (AKA: Fireworks) is written and directed by Takeshi Kitano. It stars Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi and Susumu Terajima. Music is by Joe Hisaishi and cinematography by Hideo Yamamoto.
Yoshikata Nishi (Kitano) is a loose ...
r96sk
7/10
•3/5/2022There's greatness in there, for sure, but <em>'Fireworks'</em> (or, the better title, <em>'Hana-bi'</em>) drags on for too long.
I was with it for the first 45-55 minutes, but the final portion of the film really dragged for me; aside from a few m...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•5/24/2024You wouldn't want to be policeman "Nishi" (Takeshi Kitano). His young child died a few years earlier, his wife is terminally ill in hospital and his partner at work takes a bullet that renders him paraplegic. Unsurprisingly, he hits the skids a bit a...