As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
assassination
police
yakuza
gang war
hiroshima, japan
murder
mob boss
1960s
crackdown
shōwa era (1926-89)
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3.7 / 5
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Cast
Bunta Sugawara
Shozo Hirono
Tatsuo Umemiya
Shinichi Iwai
Toshio Kurosawa
Shigeru Takemoto
Kunie Tanaka
Masakichi Makihara
Shingo Yamashiro
Shoichi Eda
Ichirō Ogura
Hiroshi Nozaki
Akio Hasegawa
Yasuki Fukuda
Shinichirō Mikami
Hidemitsu Kawada
Isao Natsuyagi
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Toshie Kimura
Toshika
Sanae Nakahara
Kikue
Mayumi Nagisa
Mieko
Crew
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Kazuo Kasahara
Screenplay
Koichi Iiboshi
Story
Popular Reviews
8 reviews
Joey_Sockitume
9.9★ · 04/28/25
Genre defining stuff. Iwai with the bleached (shaved?) eyebrows strikes me as a total psycho. A blur in the best way possible.
Genre defining stuff. Iwai with the bleached (shaved?) eyebrows strikes me as a total psycho. A blur in the best way possible.
YoavbergelPRO
10.0★ · 04/16/24
(4/8) wow what a great film in this one you the war that was building up in the last chapter and the squeeze that his been put by the police on the gang and the ending Sets up the exception and story of the next chapter the final episode
(4/8) wow what a great film in this one you the war that was building up in the last chapter and the squeeze that his been put by the police on the gang and the ending Sets up the exception and story of the next chapter the final episode
Mapou
7.0★ · 12/23/25
fives
7.9★ · 11/17/24
chadma
6.0★ · 09/09/23
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