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{{Infobox film
| name           = Gonin
| image          = Gonin-poster.jpg
| caption        = Film poster for {{Lang|ja-latn|Gonin}}
| director       = [[Takashi Ishii (film director)|Takashi Ishii]]
| producer       = [[Katsuhide Motoki]]<br />[[Taketo Niitsu]]<br />[[Takuto Niizu]]
| writer         = [[Takashi Ishii (film director)|Takashi Ishii]]
| starring       = [[Takeshi Kitano]]<br />[[Kōichi Satō (actor)|Kōichi Satō]]<br />[[Masahiro Motoki]]<br />[[Jinpachi Nezu]]<br />[[Kippei Shiina]]
| music          = [[Goro Yasukawa]]
| cinematography = [[Yasushi Sasakibara]]
| editing        = [[Akimasa Kawashima]]
| distributor    = [[Shochiku]]
| released       = {{Film date|1995|09|23|Japan|df=y}}
| runtime        = 109 minutes
| country        = Japan
| language       = Japanese
| budget         = 
}}

'''{{Lang|ja-latn|Gonin}}''' ({{langx|ja|ゴニン (５人)}} or, in some English-language editions, ''The Five'') is a [[1995 in film|1995]] [[crime film]] directed by [[Takashi Ishii (film director)|Takashi Ishii]] and starring [[Takeshi Kitano]], [[Kōichi Satō (actor)|Kōichi Satō]] and [[Masahiro Motoki]]. This was the first film Kitano starred in after his 1994 motorcycle accident. The eyepatch the character wears was because his right eye was still leaking fluids.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kitanotakeshi.com/index.php?content=filmography&show_film&id=76|title=The Five (Gonin)|accessdate=September 26, 2014|publisher=kitanotakeshi.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716085506/http://www.kitanotakeshi.com/index.php?content=filmography&show_film&id=76|archive-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=usurped}}{{self-published source|date=January 2013}}</ref>

==Summary==
Bandai (Sato) is a [[disco]] owner whose business, following the collapse of [[Japan]]'s [[bubble economy]], is slowly disintegrating, and who owes debts he cannot possibly pay to the local [[yakuza]]. His solution is to rob the gangsters, for which purpose he assembles a team consisting of other casualties of the economic [[downturn]]—including a gay hustler (Motoki) who frequents his club, a down-on-his-luck ex-cop (Jinpachi Nezu), an unbalanced [[salaryman]] ([[Takenaka Naoto|Naoto Takenaka]]), and a [[Thai people|Thai]] [[pimp]] (Kippei Shiina). The hastily planned [[Robbery|heist]] goes off awkwardly, and the yakuza start tracking down the conspirators, hiring a team of hitmen (Kitano and Kazuya Kimura) to take out the thieves.

==Cast==
* [[Kōichi Satō (actor)|Kōichi Satō]] as Mikihiko Bandai
* [[Masahiro Motoki]] as Junichi Mitsuya
* [[Jinpachi Nezu]] as Kaname Hizu
* [[Kippei Shiina]] as Jimmy 
* [[Naoto Takenaka]] as Shohei Ogiwara
* [[Megumi Yokoyama (actress)|Megumi Yokoyama]] as Nammy
* [[Eiko Nagashima]] as Saki
* [[Maiko Kawakami]] as Hostess at Pinky
* [[Hideo Murota]] as Shikine
* [[Kazuya Kimura]] as Kazuma Shibata
* [[Shingo Tsurumi]] as Shigeru Hisamatsu
* [[Toshiyuki Nagashima]] as Yasumasa Ogoshi
* [[Takeshi Kitano]] as Ichiro Kyoya

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0113194|Gonin}}
* {{in lang|ja}} ''[http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1995/ds002250.htm Gonin]'' at the Japanese Movie Database

{{Takashi Ishii}}

[[Category:1995 films]]
[[Category:1995 crime drama films]]
[[Category:1995 crime thriller films]]
[[Category:1990s heist films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Takashi Ishii]]
[[Category:Japanese crime drama films]]
[[Category:Japanese crime thriller films]]
[[Category:1990s Japanese-language films]]
[[Category:Japanese heist films]]
[[Category:Yakuza films]]
[[Category:1990s Japanese films]]


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