He also learns that the boss will be meeting with the Anan that night in a hotel. Takahashi is killed and Murakawa sets off with the only survivor of the group, a member of the Nakamatsu clan, who helps him by rigging the electricity in the hotel to go off at a certain time. Murakawa tells the woman that he might come back. Later that night, Murakawa goes into the hotel and slaughters both clans with an assault rifle. The next morning, while the woman continues to wait for him, Murakawa is dropped off nearby. He gets into the woman's car alone and commits suicide by shooting himself in the head. Cast Takeshi Kitano as Murakawa, an aging mid-level yakuza. Aya Kokumai as Miyuki, an Okinawa rape victim. Tetsu Watanabe as Uechi, the head of the Nakamatsu gang who drives the group's bus. Masanobu Katsumura as Ryōji, a young coworker of Uechi who befriends Ken. Susumu Terajima as Ken, the gangly long-time lieutenant of Murakawa. Ren Ōsugi as Katagiri, a businessman under Murakawa. Tonbo Zushi as Kitajima, Murakawa's boss. Ken'ichi Yajima as Takahashi, the lieutenant of Kitajima. Eiji Minakata as The hit man, working for Takahashi and Kitajima. Production The film was conceived with four basic scenes; Yakuza having to go to Okinawa, Yakuza arriving in Okinawa, the machine-gun shootout, and the main character shooting himself in the head. Kitano said his shooting technique is spontaneous in that he allowed the film to fill in the space between these four scenes itself. The title Sonatine comes from the musical term sonatina. Kitano said that when learning the piano, when the learner gets to sonatinas they have to decide where they want to go, whether it is to classical, jazz or popular music; marking the point of crucial decision making. This refers to the character Murakawa in the film. The original title should have been "Okinawa Pierrot", a possible reference to Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou. The film's poster is of a Napoleon fish being pierced with a spear. Kitano said this type of fish used to be very common in the oceans south of Japan, but has been decreasing. He used the image simply because the contrast of the "beautifully shaped" fish being speared seemed striking to him. Soundtrack The soundtrack to Sonatine was composed by Joe Hisaishi. It won the Japanese Academy Award for Music in 1994. The CD