

Big Shots Die at Dawn
1961-04-09 · 97 min · ★ 6.4
Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.
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- Directors
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Production companies
- TOHO
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Yūzō KayamaJiro
Kumi Mizuno
Mickey Curtis
Akihiko Hirata
Jun Tazaki
Tadao Nakamaru
Ichirō Nakatani
Yukiko Shimazaki
Eijirō Yanagi
Sachio Sakai
Ren Yamamoto
Senkichi Ōmura
Hisashi Igawa
Kunie Tanaka
Fuyuki Murakami
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