After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
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Cool, grave, plot-driven and relentless.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Tetsuya WatariTetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo
- Chieko MatsubaraChiharu
- Hideaki NitaniKenji Aizawa
- Tamio KawachiTatsuzo the Viper
- Eiji GōTanaka
- Tomoko HamakawaMutsuko
- Takeshi YoshidaKeiichi
- Isao TamagawaUmetani
- Eimei EsumiOtsuka
- Ryuji KitaKurata
Crew
- Seijun SuzukiDirector
- Kōhan KawauchiScreenplay
- Shigeyoshi MineDirector of Photography
- Hajime KaburagiOriginal Music Composer
- Shinya InoueEditor
- Tetsuro NakagawaProducer
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