Gonin

For other uses, see Gonin (disambiguation).

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Gonin" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

1995 Japanese film

Gonin

Film poster for Gonin

Directed by| Takashi Ishii
Written by| Takashi Ishii
Produced by| Katsuhide Motoki
Taketo Niitsu
Takuto Niizu
Starring| Takeshi Kitano
Kōichi Satō
Masahiro Motoki
Jinpachi Nezu
Kippei Shiina
Cinematography| Yasushi Sasakibara
Edited by| Akimasa Kawashima
Music by| Goro Yasukawa
Distributed by| Shochiku

Release date

* 23 September 1995 (1995-09-23) (Japan)

Running time

| 109 minutes
Country| Japan
Language| Japanese

Gonin (Japanese: ゴニン (５人) or, in some English-language editions, The Five) is a 1995 crime film directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Takeshi Kitano, Kōichi Satō and Masahiro Motoki. This was the first film Kitano starred in after his 1994 motorcycle accident. The eyepatch the character wears was because his right eye was still leaking fluids.[1]

## Summary

[edit]

Bandai (Sato) is a disco owner whose business, following the collapse of Japan's bubble economy, is slowly disintegrating, and who owes debts he cannot possibly pay to the local yakuza. His solution is to rob the gangsters, for which purpose he assembles a team consisting of other casualties of the economic downturn—including a gay hustler (Motoki) who frequents his club, a down-on-his-luck ex-cop (Jinpachi Nezu), an unbalanced salaryman (Naoto Takenaka), and a Thai pimp (Kippei Shiina). The hastily planned heist goes off awkwardly, and the yakuza start tracking down the conspirators, hiring a team of hitmen (Kitano and Kazuya Kimura) to take out the thieves.

## Cast

[edit]

* Kōichi Satō as Mikihiko Bandai
* Masahiro Motoki as Junichi Mitsuya
* Jinpachi Nezu as Kaname Hizu
* Kippei Shiina as Jimmy
* Naoto Takenaka as Shohei Ogiwara
* Megumi Yokoyama as Nammy
* Eiko Nagashima as Saki
* Maiko Kawakami as Hostess at Pinky
* Hideo Murota as Shikine
* Kazuya Kimura as Kazuma Shibata
* Shingo Tsurumi as Shigeru Hisamatsu
* Toshiyuki Nagashima as Yasumasa Ogoshi
* Takeshi Kitano as Ichiro Kyoya

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "The Five (Gonin)". kitanotakeshi.com. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved September 26, 2014.[self-published source]

## External links

[edit]

* Gonin at IMDb
* Gonin at AllMovie
* (in Japanese) Gonin at the Japanese Movie Database

* v
* t
* e

Films directed by Takashi Ishii

* Original Sin (1992)
* Gonin (1995)
* Gonin 2 (1996)
* Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1 (1997)
* Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2 (1999)
* Freeze Me (2000)
* Flower and Snake (2004)
* Amai Muchi (2013)
* Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend (2013)
* Gonin Saga (2015)

This article about a crime thriller film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

This article related to a Japanese film of the 1990s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template