Boiling Point

Boiling Point

6.9IMDb Score
Released:1990-09-15
Duration:96 min
Country:Japan
Director:Takeshi Kitano
Actors:Yûrei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Takeshi Kitano, Guadalcanal Taka, Dankan
Production:Bandai Visual, Shochiku-Fuji Company

Overview:

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

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