Big Shots Die at Dawn

Big Shots Die at Dawn by Kihachi Okamoto

6.20

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)

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Cast

Yūzō Kayama

Yūzō Kayama as Jiro

Kumi Mizuno

Kumi Mizuno as

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis as

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata as

Jun Tazaki

Jun Tazaki as

Tadao Nakamaru

Tadao Nakamaru as

Ichirō Nakatani

Ichirō Nakatani as

Yukiko Shimazaki

Yukiko Shimazaki as

Eijirō Yanagi

Eijirō Yanagi as

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai as

Ren Yamamoto

Ren Yamamoto as

Senkichi Ōmura

Senkichi Ōmura as

Hisashi Igawa

Hisashi Igawa as

Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka as

Fuyuki Murakami

Fuyuki Murakami as

Hideo Sunazuka

Hideo Sunazuka as

Masanobu Oki

Masanobu Oki as

Kōji Iwamoto

Kōji Iwamoto as

Kan Hayashi

Kan Hayashi as

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