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After a stretch in prison, ex-yakuza Noriyuki Kunihiro
is glad to be free. Fed up with his previous life, Kunihiro
has decided to go straight. He meets up with his old friend
Tanigawa who is more than keen to get him back into the yakuza
fold. Kunihiro makes it clear that he wants to go straight,
but things don't seem to be going as smoothly as he'd hoped.
He soon discovers that many obstacles, not least Tanigawa,
stand in his way...
Onibi
- The Fire Within from 1997 seems, on the surface, to
be a bit of a clichéd movie. An ex-yakuza hitman called Noriyuki
Kunihiro is released from prison. It would seem that the stretch
inside has done him the world of good as he has decided that
he wants no more to do with his yakuza past. However, it's
not long before one of his old friends has tracked him down
in a bid to get him back into the fold. It's the old 'bad
guy, tries to go straight but can't free himself from his
past' storyline.
Kunhiro
falls in love with a pianist, Asako Hino, who asks him to
acquire a gun for her so that she can kill her old boyfriend.
Smitten with her he agrees and sets about training her to
use the gun. But, when it comes down to it, it would seem
that she is not a killer.
The
storyline surrounding an ex-criminal trying to change his
destiny has been tacked countless times (Onibi is not
a million miles from Hollywood's 1993 Carlito's Way
- if you take away the girlfriend wanting to commit murder
element). Ultimately, this sadly means that the viewer is
probably going to guess how everything will conclude before
the first ten minutes are up.
In
truth this movie is a little too disjointed and a little too
predictable to be totally satisfying which sadly means that
it is fairly average viewing.
Extras
include an interview with the director, commentary with Tom
Mes and the usual cast and crew biographies.
Nick
Smithson
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