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Paper Lantern

1987
Directed byShunichi Kajima
1h 40m

A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji".

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Takanori JinnaiEri IshidaYoshio Harada
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Mariko Kaga
Takanobu Hozumi
Nenji Kobayashi
Takashi Naito
Taketoshi Naitō
Saburo Tokito
Masayuki Watanabe
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GENRES
ActionDrama
STATUSReleased
RATING
NR

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