Boiling Point
Sep 15 1990
•2h 36m
•Crime, Comedy, Drama
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
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Yûrei Yanagi
Masaki
Yuriko Ishida
Sayaka
Takeshi Kitano
Uehara
Guadalcanal Taka
Takashi Iguchi
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