Big Shots Die at Dawn

6.2 / 10

(4 votes)

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)

Country:

Japan

Genre:

Crime,

Action

Duration:

97 minutes

Year:

1961

Director:

Kihachi Okamoto

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Company:

TOHO

Cast:
Yūzō Kayama

Jiro

Kumi Mizuno

Mickey Curtis

Akihiko Hirata

Jun Tazaki

Crew:
Kihachi Okamoto

Director

Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Editor

Yukio Ota

Director of Photography

Sei Ikeno

Original Music Composer

Tomoyuki Tanaka

Executive Producer