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Boiling Point(1990)
Status: Released
Date: 1990-09-15
69%
204 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Overview:
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Shochiku-Fuji Company
Movie: Boiling Point
Top 10 Billed Cast
柳憂怜
Masaki
石田ゆり子
Sayaka
ビートたけし
Uehara
ガダルカナル・タカ
Takashi Iguchi
ダンカン
Kazuo
芦川誠
Akira
井川比佐志
Otomo
ジョニー大倉
Minamizaka
ふせえり
Fumiyo
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