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Paper Lantern
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live. This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit "Ryuji".
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Cast
Takanori Jinnai
Eri Ishida
Yoshio Harada
Mariko Kaga
Takanobu Hozumi
Nenji Kobayashi
Takashi Naito
Taketoshi Naitō
Saburo TokitoDetails
- Director
- Shunichi Kajima
- Writers
- Shōji Kaneko, Goro Hanawa
- Release date
- May 23, 1987
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Original language
- Japanese
- Studios
- Vanfiru
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