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HANA-BI

By Takeshi KITANO

CELLULOID DREAMS - as SALES All rights

Drama - Completed 1997

- Year of production
- 1997
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 103 mn
- Director(s)
- Takeshi KITANO
- Synopsis
- Former police officer Nishi feels responsible for the shattered lives of his loved ones. His partner Horibe has been crippled in a disastrous stakeout, a colleague is shot dead by the same villain, and his own wife has a terminal illness. In debt to a yakuza loanshark, Nishi conceives a bank robbery to provide for his partner, help the dead cop’s widow, and take one last holiday throughout Japan with his wife and share a final taste of happiness… A highly original crime drama written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano.