Cabaret

Cabaret (1986)

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.

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  • Release Date: 1986-04-26
  • Runtime: 1h 44min
  • Director: Haruki Kadokawa

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Cast

  • Hironobu Nomura

    Shunichi Yashiro

  • Takeshi Kaga

    Takigawa

  • Mitsuko Baisho

    Megumi Nanbu

  • Junko Mihara

    Eiko

  • Hideo Murota

    Kosakai

  • Isao Bitō

    Asai

  • Sonny Chiba

    Yakuza boss

  • Kiwako Harada

    Pianist

  • Tomoyo Harada

    Chieko

  • Yoshio Harada

    Shirae

  • Yūji Honma

    Shoji

  • Toshiyuki Nagashima

    Driver

  • Isao Natsuyagi

    Bar owner

  • Johnny Ohkura

    Nakamura

  • Masato Furuoya

    Sajima

  • Tetsuro Tamba

    Yakuza boss

  • Hiroyuki Sanada

    Tanokura

  • Etsuko Shihomi

    Bar maid

  • Hiroko Yakushimaru

    Waitress

  • Kentarō Shimizu

    Maekawa

  • Ryudo Uzaki

    Yasuhara

  • Noriko Watanabe

    Midori

  • Susumu Terajima

    (uncredited)