Movielogr
Cabaret (1986)
Directed by Haruki Kadokawa
Overview
A young jazz musician’s desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician’s girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist’s attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza “friend” is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Length 104 minutes
Actors
Hironobu Nomura | Takeshi Kaga | Junko Mihara | Hideo Murota | Isao Bito | Sonny Chiba | Tomoyo Harada | Isao Natsuyagi | Johnny Okura | Tetsurō Tamba | Hiroyuki Sanada | Etsuko Shihomi | Ryûdô Uzaki | Noriko Watanabe | Susumu Terajima | Ryôichi Takayanagi | Tsunehiko Watase | Riki Takeuchi | Tadashi Naruse | Usaburo Oshima | Yukari Tsuda | Mayu Usami | Yasuhiro Arai | Kouichi Yamakawa | Takao Nakamura | Chû Takatsuki | Hirofumi Nakase | Masuji Fujiwara | Kaori Murata | Akihiro Shimizu | Keisuke Nakai | Kenzo Kitakata | Toshiyuki Nagashima | Masato Furuoya | Hakuryu | Kiwako Harada | Hiroko Yakushimaru | Yûji Honma | Kentarô Shimizu | Yoshio Harada | Mitsuko Baisho