Sonatine
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano
Aya Kokumai
Tetsu Watanabe
Masanobi Katsumuru
Susmu Terashima
Film Details
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Synopsis
An influential, experienced, aggressive yakuza is tiring of his way of life, and agrees to go to Okinawa to help a gang engaged in a struggle against a rival mob. But his arrival provokes the rival gang, and eventually he loses most of his men, with the final confrontation at an abandoned beach house.
Director
Takeshi Kitano
Cast
Takeshi Kitano
Aya Kokumai
Tetsu Watanabe
Masanobi Katsumuru
Susmu Terashima
Tonbo Zushi
Kenichi Yajima
Eiji Minakata
Ren ôsugi
Crew
Satoshi Fukushima
Junichi Goto
Tomoo Haraguchi
Joe Hisaishi
Senji Horiuchi
Akinori Igarashi
Masako Ikeda
Kenichi Kanda
Masato Kaneko
Masahiro Kitahama
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano
Hiroko Kobayashi
Tatsuro Makiyama
Alen Mikudo
Hiroko Misoka
Masayuki Mori
Shigeki Murano
Ryo Murayama
Hisao Nabeshima
Yoshihisa Nakagawa
Hisashi Oda
Kazuyoshi Okuyama
Akira Osaki
Ritta Saito
Ritta Saito
Osamu Sasaki
Kazuhisa Sekiya
Hirohide Shibata
Hiroshi Shimizu
Sasutada Sunagawa
Hitoshi Takaya
Toshihiro Tenma
Kyoko Toyokawa
Hideo Yamamoto
Katsumi Yanagijima
Takio Yoshida
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1994
Released in United States 1996
Released in United States July 1994
Released in United States on Video October 12, 1998
Released in United States on Video October 13, 1998
Released in United States Spring April 10, 1998
Shown at Asian American International Film Festival in New York City July 22-24 & 30-31, 1994.
Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival (Takeshi Retrospective) September 27 - October 6, 1996.
Released in United States 1994 (Shown in New York City (Japan Society) as part of program "New Films From Japan" October 28 - December 16, 1994.)
Released in United States 1996 (Shown at Tokyo International Film Festival (Takeshi Retrospective) September 27 - October 6, 1996.)
Released in United States July 1994 (Shown at Asian American International Film Festival in New York City July 22-24 & 30-31, 1994.)
Released in United States on Video October 12, 1998
Released in United States on Video October 13, 1998
Released in United States Spring April 10, 1998