You can take the boy out of the yakuza, but you can't take the yakuza out of the boy—especially when they shoot your sister.
There was once a boy who pointed a gun at his own father—the head of a yakuza group. Shuji (Ryuji Harada) now runs a bar in Minami, Osaka. Having resented being born into a yakuza family, he had long cut ties with that world. But when a fierce conflict erupts between his father's organization, the Tajima-gumi, and a rival group led by Tokuda (Hitoshi Ozawa), who betrayed them, Shuji gets caught in the middle. As the feud intensifies, it even affects Shuji’s close friends and younger sister. Though he despised the yakuza, the blood of the underworld still runs through his veins—and it's that very blood that begins to drag him into the heart of the battle...
Acting
Ryuji Harada simmers with reluctant rage—every glance screams 'I didn't want this.'
Direction
Masahiro Asao makes 87 minutes feel like a lifetime of bad decisions closing in.
Director
Masahiro Asao
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Underface is part of the V-Cinema tradition—direct-to-video Japanese films that often explore grittier yakuza stories than mainstream cinema allows.
The Tajima-gumi vs. betrayer Tokuda dynamic echoes real Kansai-region gang conflicts; Osaka's Minami district has historically been contested territory among yakuza syndicates.
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