“Work is all I've ever known.”
Fireworks
7.7
783 votes·1997
·1h 43m
·MovieCrimeDrama
Overview
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
Keywords
seafarewellbeachgamblingyakuzaloss
Cast
Takeshi Kitano
Yoshitaka Nishi
Kayoko Kishimoto
Nishi's Wife
Ren Osugi
Horibe
Susumu Terajima
Nakamura
Tetsu Watanabe
Junkyard Owner
Hakuryu
Yakuza Hitman
Yasuei Yakushiji
Criminal
Tarô Itsumi
Kudo
Kenichi Yajima
Doctor
Makoto Ashikawa
Tanaka
Yuko Daike
Tanaka's Widow
Tsumami Edamame
Businessman Throwing Rocks
Yûrei Yanagi
Chef #1
Sujitarô Tamabukuro
Chef #2
Motoharu Tamura
Chief Detective
You Might Also Like
Based on this title
6.8
Outrage Coda
2017·Action, Crime
6.1
Female Yakuza Tale
1973·Action, Crime
6.2
The Outsider
2018·Crime, Drama
7.4
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973·Crime, Action
7.4
The Unforgivable
2021·Drama, Crime
6.3
The Air I Breathe
2007·Drama, Thriller
6.6
Black Rain
1989·Drama, Action
7.1
The Yakuza
1974·Crime, Drama
6.6
Graveyard of Honor
1975·Crime, Action
Similar Titles
More like Fireworks
6.1
The Door in the Floor
2004·Drama
6.4
A Mighty Heart
2007·Drama, Thriller
A woman pays the price
1993·Drama
6.9
Death at a Funeral
2007·Comedy, Drama
5.6
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
1974·Crime, Drama
6.4
Swept from the Sea
1998·Drama, Romance
5.4
Ask the Dust
2006·Romance, Drama
7.3
A Light in the Harbor
2025·Drama
6.8
Le radeau de la Méduse
1998·Drama, History