Big Shots Die at Dawn
6.2
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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Cast
32 people
Yūzō Kayama
Jiro
Known for
Red Beard
Sanjuro
Kumi Mizuno
Known for
Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
The War of the Gargantuas
Kihachi Okamoto
Also in
Shin Godzilla
Boy's Choir
Ichirō Ikeda
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Reiji Miwa
Mickey Curtis
Known for
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Fires on the Plain
Ei Ogawa
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Haruhiko Oyabu
Akihiko Hirata
Known for
Godzilla
Rodan
Sei Ikeno
Kihachi Okamoto Director · Ichirō Ikeda Screenplay Ei Ogawa Screenplay
First release April 9, 1961 · Produced in Japan · Original title 顔役暁に死す
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TOHO
Production
Japan
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Original title
顔役暁に死す
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · April 9, 1961
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
October 20, 2014 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Kihachi Okamoto (Moscow)
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