As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
Direction
Fukasaku's documentary-style chaos reaches bureaucratic heights.
Editing
Rapid-fire police briefings mirror yakuza paranoia.
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Bunta Sugawara
Shozo Hirono
Tatsuo Umemiya
Shinichi Iwai
Toshio Kurosawa
Shigeru Takemoto
Kunie Tanaka
Masakichi Makihara
Shingo Yamashiro
Shoichi Eda
Ichirō Ogura
Hiroshi Nozaki
Akio Hasegawa
Yasuki Fukuda
Shinichirō Mikami
Hidemitsu Kawada
Isao Natsuyagi
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Toshie Kimura
Toshika
Sanae Nakahara
Kikue
Mayumi Nagisa
Mieko
Nobuo Kaneko
Yoshio Yamamori
Asao Koike
Tomoji Okajima
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