Gonin


Gonin 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 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 who frequents his club, a down-on-his-luck ex-cop, an unbalanced salaryman, and a Thai pimp. The hastily planned heist goes off awkwardly, and the yakuza start tracking down the conspirators, hiring a team of hitmen to take out the thieves.

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