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.

Cast (49)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

Y

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)

Ryōichi Takayanagi

Tsunehiko Watase

Yakuza

Riki Takeuchi

Masataka Naruse

U

Usaburo Oshima

Yukari Tsuda

M

Mayu Usami

Y

Yasuhiro Arai

K

Kouichi Yamakawa

T

Takao Nakamura

C

Chū Takatsuki

H

Hirofumi Nakase

M

Masuji Fujiwara

K

Kaori Murata

Akihiro Shimizu

K

Keisuke Nakai

Kenzo Kitakata

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Masato Furuoya

Hakuryu

Kiwako Harada

Hiroko Yakushimaru

Y

Yūji Honma

Kentarō Shimizu

Yoshio Harada

Mitsuko Baisho

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