Big Shots Die at Dawn

Big Shots Die at Dawn

Big Shots Die at Dawn

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1961•97 min•JA

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Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

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