Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Director:
Kinji Fukasaku
Writers:
Fumio Kōnami, Hirō Matsuda, Kinji Fukasaku.
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Koji Tsuruta as Masuo Gunji |
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Tomisaburō Wakayama as Yonabaru |
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Noboru Andō as Noburo Kudo |
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Asao Koike as Ozaki |
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Tsunehiko Watase as Shin Seki |
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Akiko Kudō as Terumi Higa |
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Kenji Imai as Mad Dog Jiro |
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Harumi Sone as One Shot |
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Tōru Yuri as Old Man |
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Asao Uchida as Eisaku Oba |
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Hideo Murota as 'Shark' Samejima |
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Keijirō Morozumi as Gushken |
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Rinichi Yamamoto as Hateruma |
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Tadao Nakamaru as Satoshi Kaizu |
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Osman Yusuf as Carter |
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Kaku Takashina as Kusakabe |
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Genji Kawai as Chairman of Kohoku Association |
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Akikane Sawa as Doctor |
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Hiroshi Hasegawa as Hateruma's minion |
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Keiichi Kitagawa as Jiro's Younger Brother |
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Shinobu Miura as Jiro's Younger Brother |
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Chie Kobayashi as Seki's Woman |
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Takashi Hio as Daito-Kai Member |
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Tooru Hanada as Daito-Kai Member |
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Hajime Kubo as Daito-Kai Member |
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Asaji Yoshinoura as Yonahara's Minion |
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Hajime Nakasone as Yonahara's Minion |
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Tomotaka Ueda as Gushken's Minion |
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Ray Bosman as Morrison |
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Willie Dorsey as Hitman |
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Carlton Smilney as Hitman |
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Roosevelt Saline as Hitman |
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Obera Edwards as Hitman |
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Jirô Chiba as Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Directing | Kinji Fukasaku | Director |
| Sound | Takeo Yamashita | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Osamu Tanaka | Editor |
| Art | Hiroshi Kitagawa | Art Direction |
| Directing | Kunimitsu Teranishi | Assistant Director |
| Crew | Takashi Hio | Fight Choreographer |
| Writing | Fumio Kōnami | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hirō Matsuda | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kinji Fukasaku | Screenplay |
| Production | Kōji Shundō | Producer |
| Camera | Hanjirō Nakazawa | Director of Photography |
| Production | Toru Yoshida | Producer |
| Art | Hiroshi Kitagawa | Production Design |
| Art | Shôji Takei | Set Decoration |
| Production | Genrô Itô | Production Supervisor |
| Art | Masao Ishii | Set Designer |
| Sound | Yozo Uchida | Sound |
| Camera | Tetsuya Desaki | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | Shigeru Umetani | Gaffer |