
Firebrands
Crime · Action · Drama
Overview
Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya (Yasukaze Motomiya) dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), choose to pursue their own paths as yakuza, hiding a new major source of income from the family. But when the family captain (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) shows up for the first time in ten years...
Top Cast


Yasukaze Motomiya
Yasukaze Motomiya
Torata Hachiya
Yasukaze Motomiya
Torata Hachiya


Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Tsuyoshi Sagane
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Tsuyoshi Sagane


Kazuyoshi Ozawa
Kazuyoshi Ozawa
Yamazaki
Kazuyoshi Ozawa
Yamazaki


Masaru Matsuda
Masaru Matsuda
Miura
Masaru Matsuda
Miura


Daisuke Nagakura
Daisuke Nagakura
Dainari
Daisuke Nagakura
Dainari


Eiichi Furui
Eiichi Furui
Komada
Eiichi Furui
Komada
Junpei
Junpei
Terui
Junpei
Terui


Yuto Nakano
Yuto Nakano
Fujioka
Yuto Nakano
Fujioka


Keisaku Kimura
Keisaku Kimura
Lee
Keisaku Kimura
Lee
Makoto Kurami
Makoto Kurami
Makoto Kurami
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