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Blue Hearts (1996) [N/A]

Release Date:
January 1, 1996

Original Title:
Blue Hearts

Production Companies:
Toru Anayama Production

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 112

Laugh or I'll set you on fire!

Overview from TheMovieDB

Tetsu Umekawa is a member of a motorcycle gang in Oita, who spends his time playing thinner with his delinquent friends and bullying the top students. With his natural good sense of timing, he rises through the ranks of the bikers and starts dating a beautiful girl, but this is short-lived, as one setback after another hits him. Disgusted with his hometown, Tetsu moves to Tokyo in a fit of pique. He moves in with his brother, a successful professional boxer. However, he rebels against his brother, who leads a stoic life in order to keep winning, and ends up becoming a henchman of the yakuza. Tetsu leads a lazy life, but then he learns that his brother has died during a match...

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Production

Assistant Director:
Shigeki Kageyama

Director:
Tetsuya Hirosaki

Director of Photography:
Ryuichi Nakajima

Editor:
Tetsuya Hirosaki

Lighting Artist:
Ryuichi Nakajima

Music:
Takahiro Marume

Producer:
Kaoru Hirose

Screenplay:
Tetsuya Hirosaki

Sound:
Ryuichi Nakajima

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