Film
Paper Lantern
1987 · 1h 40m · Action · Drama
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- 6.7
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Overview
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji".
Cast
Takanori Jinnai
Eri Ishida
Yoshio Harada
Mariko Kaga
Takanobu Hozumi
Nenji Kobayashi
Takashi Naito
Taketoshi Naitō
Saburo Tokito
Masayuki Watanabe
Kazuo Andō
Eri Nitta
Crew
- Shunichi KajimaDirector
- Goro HanawaScreenplay
- Shōji KanekoNovel
- Tatsuo SuzukiDirector of Photography
- Evan LurieOriginal Music Composer
Media
Details
- Release date
- May 23, 1987
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
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