

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Bunta SugawaraShozo Hirono
- Hiroki MatsukataTetsuya Sakai
- Kunie TanakaMasakichi Makihara
- Eiko NakamuraSuzue Kunihiro
- Tsunehiko WataseToshio Arita
- Gorō IbukiUeda
- Nobuo KanekoYoshio Yamamori
- Toshie KimuraMrs. Yamamori
- Tamio KawachiKanbara Seiichi
- Mayumi NagisaAkiko Shinjo
Crew
- Kinji FukasakuDirector
- Kazuo KasaharaWriter
- Sadaji YoshidaDirector of Photography
- Toshiaki TsushimaOriginal Music Composer
- Shintarō MiyamotoEditor
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