Bloodstained Clan of Honor (1970)
The story takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in 1965. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
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Bunta Sugawara as Gunji |
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Tatsuo Umemiya as Hayami |
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Koji Tsuruta as Kuroki |
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Ken Sanders as Joe |
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Fumio Watanabe as Daimon |
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Junko Miyazono as Michiyo |
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Kyōsuke Machida as Kasama |
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Isamu Nagato as |
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Asao Uchida as Iwakiri |
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Hōsei Komatsu as |
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Hideo Murota as |
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Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama as |
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Nobuo Yana as |
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Kōji Fujiyama as |
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Kōji Sekiyama as |
| Directing | Kinji Fukasaku | Director |
| Writing | Kinji Fukasaku | Writer |
| Writing | Makoto Naito | Writer |
| Camera | Hanjirō Nakazawa | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Chūji Kinoshita | Original Music Composer |