Product Details

• Actors: Yoshio Harada, Reiko Kataoka, Shô Aikawa, Ko Kitamura, Ryûshi Mizukami
• Directors: Rokuro Mochizuki
• Writers: Toshiyuki Morioka
• Producers: Hiroshi Yamji, Masashi Minami, Toshiki Kimura, Yoshinori Chiba
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Arts Magic
• DVD Release Date: July 26, 2005
• Run Time: 101 minutes
• ASIN: B0009WFEL4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,585 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Onibi: The Fire Within" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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"IF YOU’RE A FAN OF CRIME FILMS, OR JAPANESE CINEMA, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR, CHECK OUT THE FILMS OF MOCHIZUKI"

Product Description

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.

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