Onibi: The Fire Within
1997 · 101 min
Drama · Crime
★ 4.8After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
Crew
- Director Rokurō Mochizuki
- Writer Toshiyuki Morioka
- Director of Photography Naosuke Imaizumi
Cast
Yoshio Harada
Noriyuki Kunihiro
Reiko Kataoka
Asako Hino
Show Aikawa
Naoto Tanigawa
Kazuki Kitamura
Hideyuki Sakata (as Yasushi Kitamura)
Ryushi Mizukami
Hanamura
- H
Hiroyuki Tsunekawa
Satoshi Fujima
- Y
Yoshiaki Fujita
Kinjo
- E
Ei Kawakami
Yoshida
- T
Toshihiro Kinomoto
Aoki
Seiroku Nakazawa
Nagashima
- M
Masai Ikenaga
Kizaki
Eiji Minakata
Kanigawa
Crew
- Director — Rokurō Mochizuki
- Writer — Toshiyuki Morioka
- Director of Photography — Naosuke Imaizumi
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