Firebrands (2012)
Overview
Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 0.648 |
Directed By
Masahiro Asao
TOP CAST
Yasukaze Motomiya
Torata Hachiya
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Tsuyoshi Sagane
Kazuyoshi Ozawa
Yamazaki
Masaru Matsuda
Miura
Daisuke Nagakura
Dainari
Eiichi Furui
Komada
Junpei
Terui
Yuto Nakano
Fujioka
Keisaku Kimura
Lee
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