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Sign in to save'''' ( or, in some English-language editions, The Five'') is a 1995 crime film directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Takeshi Kitano, Kōichi Satō and Masahiro Motoki. This was the first film Kitano starred in after his 1994 motorcycle accident. The eyepatch the character wears was because his right eye was still leaking fluids.
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6.6Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
Cast
- Koichi Sato as Mikihiko Bandai
- Masahiro Motoki as Junichi Mitsuya
- Takeshi Kitano as Ichiro Kyoya
- Jinpachi Nezu as Kaname Hizu
- Kippei Shiina as Jimmy
- Naoto Takenaka as Shohei Ogiwara
Themes
- robbery
- yakuza
- debt
- violence action
- violence
- heisei
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- Duration
- 109
- FilmAffinity ID
- 144541
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- publication date
- 1995-08-12
- title
- ゴニン
- review score
- 6.8/10
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'''' ( or, in some English-language editions, The Five'') is a 1995 crime film directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Takeshi Kitano, Kōichi Satō and Masahiro Motoki. This was the first film Kitano starred in after his 1994 motorcycle accident. The eyepatch the character wears was because his right eye was still leaking fluids.
==Summary== Bandai (Sato) is a disco owner whose business, following the collapse of Japan's bubble economy, is slowly disintegrating, and who owes debts he cannot possibly pay to the local yakuza. His solution is to rob the gangsters, for which purpose he assembles a team consisting of other casualties of the economic downturn—including a gay hustler (Motoki) who frequents his club, a down-on-his-luck ex-cop (Jinpachi Nezu), an unbalanced salaryman (Naoto Takenaka), and a Thai pimp (Kippei Shiina). The hastily planned heist goes off awkwardly, and the yakuza start tracking down the conspirators, hiring a team of hitmen (Kitano and Kazuya Kimura) to take out the thieves.