Fireworks

Work is all I've ever known.
HANA-BI (1997)
Timing: 1:43 (103 min)

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Box office
$500 000
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Director
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Hideo Yamamoto
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Norihiro Isoda
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Short description

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

What's left behind the scenes

  • All the paintings that the paralyzed police officer Horibe draws in the film were painted by Takeshi Kitano.
  • In the final scene on the beach, the girl with the kite is played by Takeshi Kitano's daughter, Shoko.
  • The word hanabi (meaning "fireworks" in Japanese) consists of two hieroglyphs: hana – "flowers", a symbol of life and love, and bi – "fire", a symbol of cruelty and violent death.

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