1976

1h 36m

7.6(9 votes)

Drama

Action

Crime

Overview

Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Hiroki Matsukata

Hideo Nakazato

Sonny Chiba

Seigou Kunigami

Tsunehiko Watase

Hiroshi Kategaru

Mikio Narita

Onaga

Tatsuo Umemiya

Kaizu

Hideo Murota

Gushikawa

Isao Bitō

Jiro

Takeo Chii

Ishikawa

Shizumi Shindo

Isao Ôdo

Creative team

Directed by: Sadao Nakajima
Written by: Fumio Kōnami
Kōji Takada

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