Onibi: The Fire Within
- Original title
- Onibi (Onibi: The Fire Within)
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 101 min.
- Country
- Japan
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Yoshio Harada
- Reiko Kataoka
- Sho Aikawa
- Kazuki Kitamura
- Ryuushi Mizukami
- Hiroyuki Tsunekawa
- Ryûji Yamamoto
- Yoshiaki Fujita
- Ei Kawakami
- Seiroku Nakazawa
- Masai Ikenaga
- Eiji Minakata
- Toshihiro Kinomoto
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama
- Synopsis
- 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.
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