Movie: Big Shots Die at Dawn

Top 10 Billed Cast

Yūzō Kayama
加山雄三

Jiro

Kumi Mizuno
水野久美

Mickey Curtis
五十嵐信次郎

Akihiko Hirata
平田昭彦

Jun Tazaki
田崎潤

Tadao Nakamaru
中丸忠雄

Ichirō Nakatani
中谷一郎

Yukiko Shimazaki
島崎雪子

Eijirō Yanagi
柳永二郎

Sachio Sakai
堺左千夫

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    Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

  • Release Date

    1961-04-09

  • Average

    6.2

  • Rating:

    3.1 starts
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    日本語
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