Gonin ( or, in some English-language editions, The Five) is a 1995 crime film directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Takeshi Kitano, Kōichi Satō and Masahiro Motoki. This was the first film Kitano starred in after his 1994 motorcycle accident. The eyepatch the character wears was because his right eye was still leaking fluids.
Summary
Bandai (Sato) is a
disco owner whose business, following the collapse of
Japan's
bubble economy, is slowly disintegrating, and who owes debts he cannot possibly pay to the local
yakuza. His solution is to rob the gangsters, for which purpose he assembles a team consisting of other casualties of the economic
downturn—including a gay hustler (Motoki) who frequents his club, a down-on-his-luck ex-cop (Jinpachi Nezu), an unbalanced
salaryman (
Takenaka Naoto), and a
Thai people pimp (Kippei Shiina). The hastily planned
Robbery 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.
Cast
External links
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Gonin at the Japanese Movie Database
