Sonatine (1993)
Movie
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.
Directed By : Takeshi Kitano
Genres : Action, Crime, Thriller
Status : Released
Released : Sep 10, 1993
Tagline : A ferocious man sleeps here.
Length : 94 minutes
Cast
- Takeshi Kitano
- Aya Kokumai
- Tetsu Watanabe
- Masanobu Katsumura
- Susumu Terajima
- Ren Osugi
- Tonbo Zushi
- Kenichi Yajima
- Eiji Minakata
- Houka Kinoshita
- Rome Kanda
- Kota Mizumori
- Yuuki Natsusaka
- Kanji Tsuda
- Kanta Yamazaki
- Yoshiyuki Morishita
- Hiroshi Ando
- Takeshi Fukazawa
- Koichi Kitamura
- Koji Koike
- Yôichi Nagai
- Yutaka Tomi
- Daigaku Sekine
- Kikuo Itô
Crew
- Director : Takeshi Kitano
- Art Direction : Osamu Sasaki
- Producer : Ritta Saito
- Producer : Takio Yoshida
- Producer : Hisao Nabeshima
- Editor : Takeshi Kitano
- Set Decoration : Hirohide Shibata
- Executive Producer : Kazuyoshi Okuyama
- Producer : Masayuki Mori
- Special Effects Makeup Artist : Tomoo Haraguchi
- Costume Design : Junichi Goto
- Costume Design : Alen Mikudo
- Makeup Artist : Takashi Oda
- Makeup Artist : Kyoko Toyokawa
- Screenplay : Takeshi Kitano
- Original Music Composer : Joe Hisaishi
- Director of Photography : Katsumi Yanagijima