Onibi: The Fire Within

Onibi: The Fire Within — Plot

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.

• Release date
• April 19, 1997
• Runtime
• 101 min
• Genres
• Drama, Crime
• Director
• Rokurō Mochizuki

Onibi: The Fire Within — Cast

Yoshio Harada Noriyuki Kunihiro Reiko Kataoka Asako Hino Show Aikawa Naoto Tanigawa Kazuki Kitamura Hideyuki Sakata (as Yasushi Kitamura) Ryushi Mizukami Hanamura

H

Hiroyuki Tsunekawa Satoshi Fujima

Y

Yoshiaki Fujita Kinjo

E

Ei Kawakami Yoshida