Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Hero

1996 1h 23m JA

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9.0

MASTERPIECE

★9.0TMDB · 2

Crime

Synopsis

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Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Show Aikawa
Yuji
Koyo Maeda
Kosaku
Tomoka Kurotani
Reiko
Susumu Terajima
Aoyagi Mikio
Toshiya Fujita
Kanamori
Ren Osugi
Suzuki
Yoriko Doguchi
Yumiko
Daikei Shimizu

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writers: Tomoyasu Okubo
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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83 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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30 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, shot by Tokushō Kikumura. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Torsten Rasch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Kan Suzuki shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Show Aikawa and Koyo Maeda and Tomoka Kurotani carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs. Tokushō Kikumura behind the camera. Torsten Rasch scores. Kan Suzuki cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

183 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
230 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Part of the "Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, shot by Tokushō Kikumura. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Torsten Rasch. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Kan Suzuki shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Show Aikawa and Koyo Maeda and Tomoka Kurotani carry the top of the cast.
9IMDB entry: tt0317815 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 2 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
11Classified under 11 themes, including "identity", "falsely accused", "homelessness", "morality".