Onibi: The Fire Within

Top 10 Billed Cast

Yoshio Harada
原田芳雄

Noriyuki Kunihiro

Reiko Kataoka
片岡礼子

Asako Hino

Show Aikawa
哀川翔

Naoto Tanigawa

Kazuki Kitamura
北村一輝

Hideyuki Sakata (as Yasushi Kitamura)

Ryushi Mizukami
水上竜士

Hanamura

Hiroyuki Tsunekawa
Hiroyuki Tsunekawa

Satoshi Fujima

Yoshiaki Fujita
Yoshiaki Fujita

Kinjo

Ei Kawakami
川上泳

Yoshida

Toshihiro Kinomoto
Toshihiro Kinomoto

Aoki

Seiroku Nakazawa
中沢青六

Nagashima

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    After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.

  • Release Date

    1997-04-19

  • Average

    4.8

  • Rating:

    2.4 starts
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    日本語
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