With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
Direction
Gosha's framing turns every alley into a tomb.
Cinematography
Tokyo neon bleeds into Kansai shadows—gorgeous doom.
Acting
Noboru Andō: former real yakuza playing retired yakuza. Method casting.
Director
Hideo Gosha
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Noboru Andō was a genuine yakuza boss before acting; his finger tattoos are real, not makeup.
This 1974 release captures the exact moment Toei's ninkyo-eiga (chivalry films) curdled into jitsuroku-eiga (documentary-style violence)—Gosha helped kill the genre he mastered.
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