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TITLE Fireworks (1997)

ALT__TITLE Hana-Bi

DISABILITY Cancer Limb Wheelchair Terminal Illness

COUNTRY Japan

LENGTH 215

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Takeshi Kitano

CAST Takeshi Kitano

Kayoko Kishimoto

Ren Osugi

NOTES A policeman, Nishi, leaves his job on a stake-out to visit his

wife who is in hospital terminally ill with leukemia. Her doctors

tell him he should take her home because they can do

nothing for her. On the same day his partner is shot in the

back and paralysed.

Nishi leaves the police force and borrows money from loan

sharks so he can be with his wife in her final weeks. He also

buys his partner, now in a wheelchair, some paints.

Alongside these heart-warming moments there are some very violent scenes.

 


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