Poster for Paper Lantern

Paper Lantern

1987 100 min Action, Drama

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".

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director Shunichi Kajima

writer Goro Hanawa

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