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Paper Lantern

Paper Lantern

Shunichi Kajima

1987

  • Action
  • Drama
10.0

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".

Cast & crew

  • Shunichi KajimaDirector
  • Takanori Jinnai
  • Eri Ishida
  • Yoshio Harada
  • Mariko Kaga
  • Takanobu Hozumi
  • Nenji Kobayashi
  • Takashi Naito
  • Taketoshi Naitō

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