Gonin
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{{Infobox film
| name = Gonin
| image = Gonin-poster.jpg
| caption = Film poster for {{Lang|ja-latn|Gonin}}
| director = Takashi Ishii
| producer = Katsuhide Motoki
Taketo Niitsu
Takuto Niizu
| writer = Takashi Ishii
| starring = Takeshi Kitano
Kōichi Satō
Masahiro Motoki
Jinpachi Nezu
Kippei Shiina
| music = Goro Yasukawa
| cinematography = Yasushi Sasakibara
| editing = Akimasa Kawashima
| distributor = Shochiku
| released = {{Film date|1995|09|23|Japan|df=y}}
| runtime = 109 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
}}
{{Lang|ja-latn|Gonin}} ({{langx|ja|ゴニン (５人)}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.kitanotakeshi.com/index.php?content=filmography&show_film&id=76|title=The Five (Gonin)|accessdate=September 26, 2014|publisher=kitanotakeshi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716085506/http://www.kitanotakeshi.com/index.php?content=filmography&show_film&id=76|archive-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=usurped}}{{self-published source|date=January 2013}}
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.
Cast
- Kōichi Satō as Mikihiko Bandai
- Masahiro Motoki as Junichi Mitsuya
- Jinpachi Nezu as Kaname Hizu
- Kippei Shiina as Jimmy
- Naoto Takenaka as Shohei Ogiwara
- Megumi Yokoyama as Nammy
- Eiko Nagashima as Saki
- Maiko Kawakami as Hostess at Pinky
- Hideo Murota as Shikine
- Kazuya Kimura as Kazuma Shibata
- Shingo Tsurumi as Shigeru Hisamatsu
- Toshiyuki Nagashima as Yasumasa Ogoshi
- Takeshi Kitano as Ichiro Kyoya
References
External links
- {{IMDb title|0113194|Gonin}}
- {{in lang|ja}} [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1995/ds002250.htm Gonin] at the Japanese Movie Database
{{Takashi Ishii}}
Category:1995 crime drama films
Category:1995 crime thriller films
Category:Films directed by Takashi Ishii
Category:Japanese crime drama films
Category:Japanese crime thriller films
Category:1990s Japanese-language films
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