Graveyard of Honor (2002 film)
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is a yakuza
film directed by Takashi Miike
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Yakuza
, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...
film directed by Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike
is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...
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Plot
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.Cast
- Narimi ArimoriNarimi ArimoriNarimi Arimori is a Japanese actress.-External links:**...
as Chieko Kikuta - Yoshiyuki Daichi as Yoshiyuki Ooshita
- Hirotaro Honda as Correctional officer
- Harumi InoueHarumi Inoueis an actress, model and accomplished swimmer. As of 2004, she is 5 ft 4 in and weighs 103 lb.She has a younger sister, Mami Inoue, who is also pursuing a similar career...
as Yôko Imamura - Renji Ishibashi as Denji Yukawa
- Goro Kishitani as Rikuo Ishimatsu
- Takashi MiikeTakashi Miikeis a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...
as Restaurant gunman - Ryôsuke Miki as Kôzô Imamura
- Yasukaze Motomiya as Kanemoto
- Mikio Ôsawa as Masato Yoshikawa
- Daisuke RyuDaisuke RyuDaisuke Ryu is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan on 14 February 1957. He won the Japanese "best new actor" Blue ribbon award for his performance as the great warlord Oda Nobunaga in Akira Kurosawa's movie Kagemusha...
as Tadaaki Kuze - Harumi Sone as Ryuuzô Fukui
- Shun SugataShun Sugata' is a Japanese character actor from Yamanashi Prefecture. He is most known for portraying villainous characters.-Films:*Abunai Deka *Baka Yaro! 2: Shiawase ni naritai...
as Toshi Nishizaki - Tetsuro TambaTetsuro Tambawas a Japanese actor.-Biography:Tamba is perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as Tiger Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice . By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: Harakiri and Kwaidan...
as Tetsuji Tokura - Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi as Shigeru Hashida
- Shingo YamashiroShingo Yamashirowas a Japanese television and film actor.Yamashiro, who was originally from Kyoto, Japan, was born , but used Shingo Yamashiro as his stage name. He made his film acting debut in 1957....
as Shinobu Sawada - Shinji Yamashita as Masaru Narimura
- Rikiya Yasuoka as Aoyama
Other credits
- Writing
- Goro Fujita: novel
- Shigenori Takechi: screenplay
- Production
- Michinao Kai: assistant producer
- Mitsuru Kurosawa: executive producer: Toei Video
- Shigeji Maeda: producer
- Fujio Matsushima: planner
- Fujio Matsushima: supervising producer
- Hitoki Ookoshi: line producer
- Tsuneo Seto: supervising planner
- Shigenori Takechi: planner
- Ken Takeuchi: supervising planner
- Tsutomu Tsuchikawa: executive producer: Daiei
- Kazuyuki Yokoyama: producer
- Production design: Tatsuo Ozeki
- Production manager: Hirofumi Yamabe
- Assistant Director: Bunmei Katô
- Sound Department
- Yukiya Sato: sound
- Kenji Shibazaki: sound effects