Japan Synopsis
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with GONIN. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Shochiku
Action + Crime in Japan
188 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Crime genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding GONIN itself).
The 1994–1996 Japan Window
GONIN holds position #92 of 143 Japan films in the 1994–1996 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1990s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Japan, 447 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when GONIN premiered alongside 59 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 59 other Japan films in 1995.
The 1032nd Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
43 audience reviews — more than 61% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (61th percentile) outruns trending popularity (40th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on GONIN, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- violence action · 2
- robbery · 20
- debt · 10
- violence · 9
- yakuza · 93
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,948 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (36th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -0.3 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Action productions specifically: #1,166 of 1,714 (top 68%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Shochiku, Image Factory IM Co. Ltd. |
| Runtime | 1h 49m |
| Release Date | September 23, 1995 |
| IMDb | tt0113194 |