75 minutes of pure yakuza power plays — someone's gonna bleed honorably.
Yamadai is the third generation Tamba group leader, a man who stands at the top of Japan's largest Yakuza organization. In Yakuza society, he rules as an absolute figure who should not be touched. However, one day a samurai appears with his blade raised against the untouchable man...
Acting
Hitoshi Ozawa's stoic menace — barely blinks, owns every frame
Direction
Kanazawa's spare staging lets silence scream louder than gunfire
Director
Katsuji Kanazawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yakuza films peaked in the 1970s; this 2014 indie revival strips away the glamor to examine organizational decay.
The 75-minute runtime mirrors classic yakuza B-pictures, forcing economical storytelling where every conversation is life-or-death.
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