Fireworks (1997)
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.
Crime
Drama
Cast & Crew
Takeshi Kitano
Yoshitaka Nishi
Kayoko Kishimoto
Nishi's Wife
Ren Osugi
Horibe
Susumu Terajima
Nakamura
Tetsu Watanabe
Junkyard Owner
Hakuryu
Yakuza Hitman
Tarô Itsumi
Kudo
Kenichi Yajima
Doctor
Makoto Ashikawa
Tanaka
Yuko Daike
Tanaka's Widow
Tsumami Edamame
Businessman Throwing Rocks
Yûrei Yanagi
Chef #1
Yoshiyuki Morishita
Yakuza Henchman #2
Manzo Shinra
Man Shot in the Face
Miki Fujitani
Florist Clerk
Keiko Yamamoto
Nurse A
Kanji Tsuda
Man under Interrogation
Omiya no Matsu
Restaurant Client
Gambino Kobayashi
Brat #2
Atsushi Ito
Male Bank Clerk #6 (uncredited)
Hidetoshi Kawaya
Male Bank Customer #3 (uncredited)
Yôko Imamoto
Female Bank Customer #1 (uncredited)
Matsumi Fuku
Landlady (uncredited)
Yasushi Tsuge, Takio Yoshida, Masayuki Mori
Producer
Takeshi Kitano
Director
Takeshi Kitano
Screenplay
