The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats (1972)
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
Director:
Sadao Nakajima
Writers:
Susumu Saji, Michio Sobu.
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Bunta Sugawara as |
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Tsunehiko Watase as |
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Masaru Shiga as |
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Naoya Makoto as |
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Tamio Kawachi as |
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Taiji Tonoyama as |
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Sanae Kitabayashi as |
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Kantarō Suga as |
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Akira Shioji as |
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Tatsuo Endō as |
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Yuriko Mishima as |
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Bin Amatsu as |
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Kyōsuke Machida as |
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Ryō Nishida as |
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Minken Karasawa as |
| Writing | Susumu Saji | Screenplay |
| Writing | Michio Sobu | Screenplay |
| Sound | Kenjiro Hirose | Music |
| Directing | Sadao Nakajima | Director |
| Crew | Nagaki Yamagishi | Cinematography |