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Boiling Point
Movie Details

Title: Boiling Point

Release Date: 15 Sep 1990

Runtime: 1h 36m

Genre: Crime, Comedy, Drama

Director: Bandai Visual, Shochiku-Fuji Company

Production Companies: Bandai Visual, Shochiku-Fuji Company

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.889 (203 votes)

Cast

  • Masaki: Yûrei Yanagi
  • Sayaka: Yuriko Ishida
  • Uehara: Takeshi Kitano
  • Takashi Iguchi: Guadalcanal Taka
  • Kazuo: Dankan
  • Akira: Makoto Ashikawa
  • Otomo: Hisashi Igawa
  • Minamizaka: Johnny Ohkura
  • Fumiyo: Eri Fuse
  • Tamagi: Katsuo Tokashiki
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