Cast
Masahiko Ono 
Yuriko Ishida 
Makoto Ashikawa 
Takeshi Kitano
Credits
Written by: Takeshi Kitano
Plot
A young man in a baseball team gets involved with the yakuza.
Sinekatalog’s take
Takeshi Kitano's second film drags a young baseball player into the yakuza world. Cool, brutal and unpredictable, with long silences and sudden violence, it shows Kitano's deadpan style forming.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.8 / 10 (8,247 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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