The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail

Overview

Part 5 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. After serving four and a half years in prison, Masa and his brother Katsuji leave Kobe to go to Nagoya to help a hostess get her daughter back from her mother. As they arrive in Nagoya, they get into a scuffle with the local yakuza affiliate. Sugawara and Kawaji's chemistry is even more evident here than usual, the storyline is alright if melodramatic. Delightful start with Tatsuo Endo as a nice guy prison guard! How many times have you seen that? And we got Kyosuke Machida (henchman) with cool beard and the always good Tsunehiko Watase (young hood) on board as well. One of the best films in the series.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 17, 1973

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Toei Company

Cast

Keiji Takamiya,Toshiaki Minami,Bunta Sugawara,Yuko Hama,Kyōsuke Machida,Tsunehiko Watase,Seizō Fukumoto,Tatsuo Endō,Yuriko Hishimi,Tamio Kawachiand 4 more

Director

Kōsaku Yamashita

Writer

Tatsuo Nogami

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0323173