

Rainbow Kids
1991-01-15 · 120 min · ★ 6.7
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.
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Production details
- Directors
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Production companies
- Kihachi Productions, Fuji Eight Company Ltd., Nichimen Corporation
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Ken OgataInspector Daigoro Igari
Tanie KitabayashiMrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
Toru KazamaThunder
Shigeru KōyamaKunijiro Yanagawa, 1st son
Kumi MizunoKanako Yanagawa, 1st daughter
Ittoku KishibeDaisaku Yanagawa, 2nd son
Kōen OkumuraAnzai, the Chauffeur
Hideyo AmamotoKushida, the Butler
Nami TamuraEiko Yanagawa, 2nd daughter
Ren YamamotoPolice OfficerTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.

A young woman suspects foul play when her cat comes home wearing a wristwatch. Convincing the FBI, though, and catching the bad guys is tougher than she imagined.

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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