The Yakuza Code Still Lives (1976)

Part of the 1970s 'jitsuroku' movement that replaced romanticized yakuza films with grim social realism. The Hiroshima setting wasn't incidental — it was ground zero for both atomic trauma and post-war black markets.

Hiroki Matsukata was actual yakuza film royalty — his father Kōjirō Kusanagi founded Toei's ninkyo-eiga genre. This role was his deliberate pivot away from that polished image.