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Big Shots Die at Dawn

Big Shots Die at Dawn

19616.21h 37m

Overview

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
Written by Ichirō Ikeda, Ei Ogawa, Haruhiko Oyabu
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Top Cast

Yūzō Kayama

Yūzō Kayama

Jiro

Kumi Mizuno

Kumi Mizuno

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis

Akihiko Hirata

Akihiko Hirata

Jun Tazaki

Jun Tazaki

Tadao Nakamaru

Tadao Nakamaru

Ichirō Nakatani

Ichirō Nakatani

Yukiko Shimazaki

Yukiko Shimazaki

Eijirō Yanagi

Eijirō Yanagi

Sachio Sakai

Sachio Sakai

Themes & Keywords

yakuza

About Big Shots Die at Dawn

Big Shots Die at Dawn is a crime, action film released in 1961 exploring themes of yakuza. Directed by Kihachi Okamoto, it stars Yūzō Kayama, Kumi Mizuno, Mickey Curtis. Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

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