Movielogr
Paper Lantern (1987)
Directed by Shunichi Kajima
Overview
A new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach cancer who has very little left to live.
This film is based on the posthumous manuscript of Shoji Kaneko, the legendary director who died of cancer after completing work on the hit “Ryuji”.
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Takanori Jinnai | Eri Ishida | Yoshio Harada | Mariko Kaga | Takanobu Hozumi | Nenji Kobayashi | Takashi Naito | Taketoshi Naitô | Saburo Tokito | Masayuki Watanabe | Kazuo Andô | Eri Nitta