Big Shots Die at Dawn
09/04/1961
An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)
Movie Information
Yūzō Kayama
as Jiro
Kumi Mizuno
as
Mickey Curtis
as
Akihiko Hirata
as
Jun Tazaki
as
Tadao Nakamaru
as
Ichirō Nakatani
as
Yukiko Shimazaki
as
Eijirō Yanagi
as
Sachio Sakai
as
Ren Yamamoto
as
Senkichi Ōmura
as
Hisashi Igawa
as
Kunie Tanaka
as
Fuyuki Murakami
as
Hideo Sunazuka
as
Masanobu Oki
as
Kōji Iwamoto
as
Kan Hayashi
as
