1961
6.2 (4 votes)
1h 37m
Genres
Crime
Action
Production Companies
TOHO
Big Shots Die at Dawn (顔役暁に死す)
Overview
An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)
Key Crew
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Director of Photography: Yukio Ota
Screenplay: Ichirō Ikeda, Ei Ogawa
Top Cast
Yūzō Kayama
Jiro
Kumi Mizuno
Mickey Curtis
Akihiko Hirata
Jun Tazaki
Tadao Nakamaru
Ichirō Nakatani
