HANA-BI (Original title)FLOWER AND FIRE (Alternative title)FIREWORKS (Alternative title)HANABI (Help search title)
Date: 1997 (Copyright)Country: JapanDirector: Takeshi Kitano
Production company billing: ©1997 Bandai Visual/Television Tokyo/Tokyo FM/Office Kitano Dolby SR In Colour Subtitles [1:1.85]
Synopsis: First Japanese film to be released in South Korea following the partial lifting of restrictions on Japanese cultural products.Synopsis: Detective Nishi has already lost his small daughter and now learns that his wife has a terminal illness, at the same time he learns that his partner at work has been shot and seriously wounded. Filled with grief at his losses, Nishi decides to do whatever it takes to right some of the wrongs in his life.Synopsis: The story of a taciturn police detective with violent tendencies who blames himself for the crippling of a colleague. He decides to steal money in order to give his dying wife a second honeymoon and in order to support the widow of another young colleague who was killed in action. Meanwhile, his wheelchair-bound colleague, who is abandoned by his wife and daughter, overcomes his suicidal impulses, in part due to his efforts to express his unvoiced feelings through paintings.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 1997not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 103 mins Length: 9267 FeetLanguage: Japanese
Date: 1997 (Copyright)Country: JapanDirector: Takeshi Kitano
Production company billing: ©1997 Bandai Visual/Television Tokyo/Tokyo FM/Office Kitano Dolby SR In Colour Subtitles [1:1.85]
Synopsis: First Japanese film to be released in South Korea following the partial lifting of restrictions on Japanese cultural products.Synopsis: Detective Nishi has already lost his small daughter and now learns that his wife has a terminal illness, at the same time he learns that his partner at work has been shot and seriously wounded. Filled with grief at his losses, Nishi decides to do whatever it takes to right some of the wrongs in his life.Synopsis: The story of a taciturn police detective with violent tendencies who blames himself for the crippling of a colleague. He decides to steal money in order to give his dying wife a second honeymoon and in order to support the widow of another young colleague who was killed in action. Meanwhile, his wheelchair-bound colleague, who is abandoned by his wife and daughter, overcomes his suicidal impulses, in part due to his efforts to express his unvoiced feelings through paintings.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 1997not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - DolbyRuntime: 103 mins Length: 9267 FeetLanguage: Japanese
Credits
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Production Company: Bandai Visual, Production Company: TV Tokyo, Production Company: Tokyo FM, Production Company: Office Kitano, Producer: Masayuki Mori, Producer: Yasushi Tsuge, Producer: Takio Yoshida, In Association with: Shigeru Watanabe, In Association with: Kouichi Miyagawa, Hideto Osawa, Co-producer: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Co-producer: Kazuhiro Furukawa, Line Producer: Yoshito Yamazaki, Production Manager: Shinji Komiya, Production Co-ordinator: Akira Yamamoto, Production Assistant: Toshio Tanaka, Production Assistant: Tomoo Tsuchii, Production Assistant: Masatoshi Hiramatsu, Assistant Director (1st): Hiroshi Shimizu, Assistant Director: Shinsuke Ôno, Assistant Director: Akinori Igarashi, Assistant Director: Nobuya Masuda, Script Supervisor: Hideko Nakada, Casting: Takefumi Yoshikawa, Casting (Extras): Kuroki Productions, Casting (Extras): J-CRIP, Casting (Extras): Himawari Theatre Group, KM Cinema Planning, Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano, Director of Photography: Hideo Yamamoto, Optical Photography Supervisor: Keiji Igarashi, Lighting (Director): Hisashi Takaya, Lighting (Assistant): Shinichi Matsukuma, Lighting (Assistant): Atsuko Suzuki, Lighting (Assistant): Masatoshi Tabegai, Lighting (Assistant): Kiyoshi Okano, Akio Kimura, Assistant Photographer: Masato Kaneko, Assistant Photographer: Tadashi Yamauchi, Assistant Photographer: Makoto Sueyoshi, Assistant Photographer: Shigeru Matsushita, Key Grip: Takashi Yokoyama, Naoki Sasho, Stills Photography: Kazutoshi Sasada, Stills Photography: Satomi Saito, Editor: Takeshi Kitano, Editor: Yoshinori Ota, Assistant Editor: Sôichi Ueno, Art Director: Norihiro Isoda, Assistant Art Director: Takayuki Nitta, Assistant Art Director: Yasuyo Kawamura, Set Decorator: Tatsuo Ozeki, Set Decorator (Assistant): Tetsuji Takita, Atsuko Koda, Paintings/Drawings: Takeshi Kitano, Costume Supervisor: Masami Saito, Hair & Make-up Artist: Michiyo Miyauchi, Special Make-up Artist: Tomoo Haraguchi, Hair & Make-up Assistant: Shiho Imai, Title Design: Yokozo Akamatsu, Music: Joe Hisaishi, Music Producer: Makoto Sasajima, Music Producer: Kazunori Terakawa, Music Producer: Nobumasa Uchida, Music Producer: Kentaro Koyama, Music Producer: Yukio Yamashita, Music Producer: Toru Takigawa, Music Recording: Shinichi Tanaka, Soundtrack Available on: Polydor Records, Sound Recording: Senji Horiuchi, Recording Assistant: Noriaki Minami, Recording Assistant: Masashi Furuya, Masaki Ikeda, Recordist: Akira Nakano, Sound Timing: Taro Kuwayama, Negative Cutter: Yoshiko Tsujii, Negative Cutter: Reiko Kubota, Yoko Sato, Mixing Assistant: Takashi Kosaka, Optical Re-recording: Akira Rizawa, Sound Effects: Yukio Hokari, Sound Effects: Masahiko Okase, Gun Adviser: Kikuo Notomi, Transportation: Akira Toyama, Transportation: Kiyoshi Moromoto, Transportation: Toshinobu Hirai, Transportation: Kunio Takamoto, Kazuki Watanabe, Script Assistant: Noriyasu Sato, Publicity (Producer): Ryo Terumoto, Publicity (Co-producer): Naoki Takahashi, Tomoyuki Igarashi, Production Publicist: Noritoshi Hamaguchi, International Affairs: Naoyuki Usui
Cast
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Takeshi Kitano (Yoshitaka Nishi), Kayoko Kishimoto (Miyuki, Nishi's wife), Ren Ôsugi (Horibe), Susumu Terajima (Detective Nakamura), Tetsu Watanabe (Tezuka, junkyard owner), Hakuryu (yakuza hitman), Yasuei Yakushiji (killer on the loose), Taro Itsumi (Detective Kudo, young cop), Kenichi Yajima (doctor), Makoto Ashikawa (Detective Tanaka), Yuko Daike (Detective Tanaka's widow), Edamame Tsunami (stone throwing officer worker), Yûrei Yanagi (chef of the Japanese restaurant A), Sujitaro Tamabukuro (hit and run victim hooligan), Tokio Seki (driver of the smaller truck), Motoharu Tamura (chief detective), Hitoshi Nishizawa (boss of yakuza loan shark), Hiromi Kikai (yakuza henchman A), Shoko Matsuda (the girl who flies kite), Yoshiyuki Morishita (yakuza henchman B), Junichiro Asai (yakuza henchman E), Kazuhiro Nagata (yakuza henchman D), Tetsu Sakuma (yakuza henchman C), Bansho Shinra (yakuza henchman who is shot in the head), Satowa Matsumi (maid at the inn), Miki Fujitani (florist clerk), Keiko Yamamoto (nurse A), Kyoko Kitazawa (nurse B), Ai Kishina (daughter of scrapyard owner), Mari Nakamura (kiosk salesclerk), Takao Toji (old man visiting temple w/his grand son), Shindai Naya (detective at stakeout A), Muneyuki Konishi (detective at stakeout B), Yuzo Yada (temple priest), Kanji Tsuda (the man under investigation), Yoichi Nagai (the cop driving an unmarked car), Kohsuke Ota (bartender), Muhomatsu (the construction worker), Omiyanomatsu (chef of the Japanese restaurant B), Shaw Kosugi, Banbino Kobayashi (brat A), Al Kitago (the man who tries to sell taxi), Yuji Aikawa (.), Hiroshi Umeda (male bank clerk 1), Kenji Yamagami (male bank clerk 2), Tomoya Naito (male bank clerk 3), Katsuya Takamatsu (male bank clerk 4), Yasushi Sakamaki (male bank clerk 5), Atsushi Ito (male bank clerk 6), Mitsuyo Ishigaki (female bank clerk 1), Fumiko Masuya (female bank clerk 2), Junko Takai (female bank clerk 3), Mariko Chiba (female bank clerk 4), Miho Kitahara (female bank clerk 5), Yoshiko Ando (female bank clerk 6), Kaoru Sugiyama (female bank clerk 7), Kikuo Ito (male bank customer 1), Shuji Otsuki (male bank customer 2), Setchin Kawaya (male bank customer 3), Koichiro Hama (male bank customer 4), Masaru Takahashi (male bank customer 5), Satogou Ono (male bank customer 6), Youko Imamoto (female bank customer 1), Yasuko Negishi (female bank customer 2), Hayaki Kaneko (female bank customer 3), Kaori Tomoeda (female bank customer 4), Ayu Nakagawa (female bank customer 5), Rieko Motohashi (female bank customer 9), Maiko Watanabe (female bank customer 6), Kazue Fujita (female bank customer 7), Yuki Iida (female bank customer 8), Ryouta Koyama (grandson visiting temple)