Onibi: The Fire Within
19/04/1997
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
Movie Information
Yoshio Harada
as Noriyuki Kunihiro
Reiko Kataoka
as Asako Hino
Show Aikawa
as Naoto Tanigawa
Kazuki Kitamura
as Hideyuki Sakata (as Yasushi Kitamura)
Ryushi Mizukami
as Hanamura
Hiroyuki Tsunekawa
as Satoshi Fujima
Yoshiaki Fujita
as Kinjo
Ei Kawakami
as Yoshida
Toshihiro Kinomoto
as Aoki
Seiroku Nakazawa
as Nagashima
Masai Ikenaga
as Kizaki
Eiji Minakata
as Kanigawa
Hajime Yamazaki
as Driving School Teacher
Yukio Yamanouchi
as
Noriko Hayami
as Toshimi
Eiji Okuda
as Myojin
Ryuji Yamamoto
as Hiroshi Fujima
