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Paper Lantern
Film / 1987

Paper Lantern

Directed by Shunichi Kajima
ActionDrama

★ 10.0/10Audience rating

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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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".

Cast

Takanori Jinnai Eri Ishida Yoshio Harada Mariko Kaga Takanobu Hozumi Nenji Kobayashi Takashi Naito Taketoshi Naitō Saburo Tokito Masayuki Watanabe Kazuo Andō Eri Nitta

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