Bloodstained Clan of Honor

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 31, 1970

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Toei Company

Cast

Ken Sanders,Fumio Watanabe,Junko Miyazono,Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama,Hōsei Komatsu,Kyōsuke Machida,Isamu Nagato,Hideo Murota,Tatsuo Umemiya,Asao Uchidaand 5 more

Director

Kinji Fukasaku

Writer

Kinji Fukasaku,Makoto Naito

Cinematography

Hanjirō Nakazawa

Music

Chūji Kinoshita

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0065543