- Gonin
Infobox Film
name = Gonin
caption = DVD cover of "Gonin"
director =Takashi Ishii
producer =Katsuhide Motoki Taketo Niitsu Takuto Niizu
writer =Takashi Ishii
starring =Koichi Sato Masahiro Motoki Jinpachi Nezu Kippei Shiina
music =Goro Yasukawa
cinematography =Yasushi Sasakibara
editing =Akimasa Kawashima
distributor =
released = flagicon|Japan Sept 23,1995
runtime = 109 min
country =Japan
language = Japanese
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
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imdb_id = 0113194"Gonin" ( _ja. ゴニン (５人) or, in some English-language editions, "The Five") is a 1995
film directed byTakashi Ishii and starringTakeshi Kitano ,Koichi Sato , andMasahiro Motoki .ummary
Bandai (Sato) is a
disco owner whose business, following the collapse ofJapan 's "bubble economy ", is slowly disintegrating, and who owes debts to localYakuza money he cannot possibly pay. His solution is to rob the gangsters, for which purpose he assembles a team consisting of other casualties of the economic downturn—including a hustler (Motoki) who frequents his club (and who, depending on how you interpret the film's opening credits, may or may not have stabbed him in the face), a down-on-his-luck ex-cop (Jinpachi Nezu), an unbalancedsalaryman (Naoto Takenaka), the extent of whose derangement is unclear until the film's most notorious and horrifying scene, and a Thai pimp (Kippei Shiina, in a strange, convincingly brain-damaged performance). The hastily-planned heist goes off awkwardly, and the Yakuza start tracking down the conspirators, hiring a team of hitmen (Kitano and Kazuya Kimura) to take out the thieves.External links
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* " [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1995/ds002250.htm Gonin] " at the Japanese Movie Database
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