Dissolution Rites

Dissolution Rites (1967)

Crime

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Writers: Kinji Fukasaku, Isao Matsumoto, Eimei Yamamoto.

Casts

	Koji Tsuruta as Sawaki
	Tetsuro Tamba as Sakai
	Junko Miyazono as Sachiko
	Fumio Watanabe as Shimamura
	Misako Watanabe as Mie
	Hōsei Komatsu as
	Asao Uchida as Kawashima
	Yasuhiro Komiya as
	Nobuo Kaneko as Itagaki
	Minoru Uezu as
	Takashi Hio as Aida
	Gōzō Sōma as Gurentai
	Nobuo Yana as Yasuhara
	Hideo Murota as
	Kyōsuke Machida as Kubo
	Harumi Sone as Nishimura
	Shoichi Kuwayama as
	Yoshiro Ichikawa as Takeshi
	Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as
	Akiyoshi Kasuga as Koyama
	Keiichi Kitagawa as
	Toru Ibuki as
	Masakazu Kuwayama as
	Ryō Suga as
	Shunji Kasuga as
	Kosaku Okano as
	Katsuo Tagawa as
	Yuko Minakaze as
	Jiro Miyaguchi as

Crew