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Hana-bi (original title)
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Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

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Yoshitaka Nishi (as Beat Takeshi)
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Nishi's wife
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Horibe (as Ren Osugi)
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Nakamura
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The Scrap Yard Owner
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The Yakuza Hitman
Yasuei Yakushiji ...
Criminal
Tarô Itsumi ...
Kudo
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Doctor
Makoto Ashikawa ...
Tanaka
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Tanaka's widow
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Businessman Throwing Rocks
Yûrei Yanagi ...
Chef #1
Sujitarô Tamabukuro ...
Chef #2
Tokio Seki ...
Old Hick
Motoharu Tamura ...
Chief Detective
Hitoshi Nishizawa ...
Yakuza Head
Hiromi Kikai
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Girl Who Flies Kite (as Shôko Matsuda)
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Hoodlum B
Jun'ichirô Asano
Kazuhiro Osada
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Man shot in face
Tetsu Sakuma
Riba Matsumi
Keiko Yamamoto ...
Nurse A
Kiyoko Kitazawa ...
Nurse B
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A girl in the scrap shop
Banri Nakamura
Takao Bokuji
Masahiro Naya
Takayuki Konishi ...
Detective B
Yûzô Yada
Yôichi Nagai
Kôsuke Ôta
Muhômatsu
Omiya no Matsu
Shiyô Kosuga
Gambino Kobayashi
Al Kitago ...
(as Aru Kitagô)
Yûji Aikawa
Hiroshi Umeda
Kenji Yamagami
Tomoya Naitô
Katsuya Takamatsu
Yasufumi Sakamaki
Atsushi Itô
Mitsuyo Ishigaki
Ayako Masuya
Sumiko Takai
Mariko Chiba
Miho Kitahara
Yoshiko Andô
Kaoru Sugiyama
Kikuo Itô
Shûji Ôtsuki
Setchin Kawaya ...
Male Bank Customer #3
Koichiro Hama
Masaru Takahashi
Ritsuyo Ono
Yôko Imamoto
Kiyoko Negishi
Saki Kaneko
Kaoru Tomoe
Ayu Nakagawa
Rieko Motohashi
Maiko Watanabe
Kazue Fujita
Yuki Iida
Ryôta Koyama
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Kazumi Totaka

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Takeshi Kitano

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Takeshi Kitano ... (written by)

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Kazuhiro Furukawa ... co-producer
Hiroshi Ishikawa ... co-producer
Kôichi Miyagawa ... associate producer
Masayuki Mori ... producer
Hideto Osawa ... associate producer
Yasushi Tsuge ... producer
Shigeru Watanabe ... associate producer
Yoshito Yamazaki ... line producer
Takio Yoshida ... producer

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Joe Hisaishi

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Hideo Yamamoto

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Takeshi Kitano
Yoshinori Ohta ... (as Yoshinori Ota)

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Norihiro Isoda

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Tatsuo Ozeki

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Masami Saito

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Hiroshi Shimizu ... assistant director

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Takeshi Kitano ... drawings by / paintings by

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Masashi Furuya ... sound assistant
Senji Horiuchi ... sound
Akira Nakano ... sound recordist

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Hitoshi Takaya ... gaffer / lighting director

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Suminobu Hamada ... music mixer
Shinichi Tanaka ... music mixer

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Andrew P. Kirkham ... audio commentary producer [gb] / bluray producer [gb]

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Plot Summary

Nishi, a police detective, has had to deal with a series of emotionally devastating events over the recent past. His only child, then preschool age, died two years ago. His wife, currently in the hospital, has been diagnosed with a terminal case of leukemia. And he develops a case of guilt when his colleague Horibe, during a stakeout which Nishi himself was supposed to be on but who, on Horibe's suggestion, was visiting his wife in the hospital instead at the time, gets shot point blank. That guilt is only exacerbated when Horibe, who as a result becomes paraplegic, is abandoned by his wife and child, with Horibe himself at a loss with what to do with his life as being a police was his sole identity. As a means to cope, Nishi becomes increasingly reckless, which affects the way he does his police work. That recklessness extends to his personal life when his wife's doctor recommends that she go home, Nishi, in the process, borrowing money from the yakuza to make ends meet. That recklessness also leads to him taking matters into his own hands as he tries to make his and his wife's life together, for however long it will last, a series of small yet special moments. Written by Huggo

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Also Known As
  • HANA-BI (Japan, Japanese title)
  • Fireworks (Canada, English title)
  • Fireworks (India, English title)
  • Fireworks (United States)
  • Fireworks (United Kingdom)
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  • 103 min
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Trivia The paintings that appear throughout the movie were painted by Takeshi Kitano himself after his near-fatal motorcycle accident in August 1994. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Wild Things/Niagara, Niagara/Mr. Nice Guy/Wide Awake/Fireworks (1998). See more »
Quotes Miyuki, Nishi's wife: Thank you - thank you for everything.
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