Chouchin
Movie
ちょうちん
1987/05/23
Character count11,315
Word count4,544
Unique words1,197
Words (1-occurrence)704
Unique kanji541
Kanji (1-occurrence)242
Difficulty beta
Moderate

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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