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Firebrands

Firebrands

20127.01h 24m

Overview

Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...

Directed by Masahiro Asao
Written by Katsumi Hayashi
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Top Cast

Yasukaze Motomiya

Yasukaze Motomiya

Torata Hachiya

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Tsuyoshi Sagane

Kazuyoshi Ozawa

Kazuyoshi Ozawa

Yamazaki

Masaru Matsuda

Masaru Matsuda

Miura

Daisuke Nagakura

Daisuke Nagakura

Dainari

Eiichi Furui

Eiichi Furui

Komada

J

Junpei

Terui

Yuto Nakano

Yuto Nakano

Fujioka

Keisaku Kimura

Keisaku Kimura

Lee

M

Makoto Kurami

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Themes & Keywords

japangangsteryakuzabuddy filmninkyo-eiga

About Firebrands

Firebrands is a crime, action, drama film released in 2012 exploring themes of japan, gangster, yakuza, buddy film, ninkyo-eiga. Directed by Masahiro Asao, it stars Yasukaze Motomiya, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Kazuyoshi Ozawa. Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...

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