Crime ·Action · Japan · 1961 · 1h 37m

Big Shots Die at Dawn

顔役暁に死す

Director

Cast

Yūzō Kayama as Jiro Kumi Mizuno as Mickey Curtis as Akihiko Hirata as Jun Tazaki as Tadao Nakamaru as

Crew

Yukio Ota — Director of Photography Yoshitami Kuroiwa — Editor Sei Ikeno — Original Music Composer Ichirō Ikeda — Screenplay Ei Ogawa — Screenplay

Synopsis

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

Mood & Themes

yakuza

Key Collaborators

Kihachi Okamoto Director Yukio Ota Director of Photography Yoshitami Kuroiwa Editor Sei Ikeno Original Music Composer Ichirō Ikeda Screenplay Ei Ogawa Screenplay

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