Japanese Godfather: Ambition (1977)
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Director:
Sadao Nakajima
Writer:
Kōji Takada
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Shin Saburi as Kazumasa Sakura |
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Toshirō Mifune as Kosuke Oishi |
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Hiroki Matsukata as Shiro Matsugae |
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Bunta Sugawara as Shinsuke Tembo |
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Kyôko Kishida as Naoko Anekoji |
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Etsushi Takahashi as Yasuo Ichinomiya |
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Akiyuki Nosaka as |
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Kyoko Nami as Yukiko Kawamoto |
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Takuya Fujioka as Genkichi Tarui |
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Eitarō Ozawa as Daizo Okayama |
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Kanjūrō Arashi as Yanosuke Kawamoto |
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Seizō Fukumoto as Nobuo Kobayashi |
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Hiromi Maya as Anna Motoyama |
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Sayoko Ninomiya as Toshiko Ichinomiya |
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Nobuo Kaneko as Hirano |
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Asao Koike as Akimasa Onizawa |
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Midori Kanazawa as Kaoru Miura |
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Kei Satō as Sekino |
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Mikio Narita as Seiji Kataoka |
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Fumio Watanabe as Keizo Tashiro |
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Emiko Azuma as Yukie Sakura |
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Hōsei Komatsu as Shigemitsu Sanada |
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Masaru Shiga as Saburo Murakami |
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Asao Uchida as Kikuo Oyama |
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Kuniyasu Atsumi as Rentaro Setoyama |
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Tomio Fujimura as Hisataro Dan |
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Torahiko Hamada as Goto |
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Masato Hoshi as Kazunori Shibata |
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Masataka Iwao as Giichi Arahama |
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Shūichirō Moriyama as Narrator |
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Kinji Nakamura as Okuda |
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Ryō Nishida as Ichiro Funase |
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Akira Nishikino as Yoichiro Wakamiya |
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Takashi Noguchi as Kazuo Miyanoura |
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Hiromi Okamoto as Toshiko Maeda |
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Maki Orihara as Makiko Sakura |
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Akira Morita as Hideki Yokokawa |
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Joshua Romeo as Al Sanders |
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Yōko Koizumi as Natsuko Miho |
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Sengoro Shigeyama as Jintoku Ryu |
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Yasuhiro Suzuki as Yoshio Shirakawa |
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Maki Tachibana as Akiko Minowa |
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Yoshibumi Tajima as Masatoshi Kojima |
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Osman Yusuf as |
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Daisuke Awaji as |
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Ömer Yusuf as Suber Ananta (uncredited) |
| Directing | Sadao Nakajima | Director |
| Writing | Koichi Iiboshi | Novel |
| Writing | Kōji Takada | Screenplay |
| Camera | Toshio Masuda | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Toshirō Mayuzumi | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Toshiro Kuro | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Harumi Ibe | Original Music Composer |