Fireworks
"Work is all I've ever known."
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Written by Takeshi Kitano
Produced by: Yasushi Tsuge, Takio Yoshida, Masayuki Mori
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