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film directed by Akinori Matsuo.

Plot

The brothers of Tetsujirō and Tetsugorō, who lost their parents and home after the

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, were picked up and grew up by a Yakuza Goi clan. One day, Tetsugorō fights the confronted yakuza Honma clan, and is expelled from Goi clan's Boss. Later, boss Goi is attacked by Honma clan's assassin and seriously injured. The assassin is Tetsutaōr, Tetsugorō's eldest brother, who had been missing after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Cast

Hideki Takahashi is a Japanese people, Japanese actor. Born in Kisarazu, Chiba near Tokyo, he attended Ichikawa Gakuen and later Nihon University. Career Takahashi made his debut with Nikkatsu Corporation, Nikkatsu and acted in youth-oriented films. Takahashi ma ...

as Nonaka Tetsugorō * Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as Nonaka Tetsujirō *

Yumiko Nogawa is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably ''Gate of Flesh'' (1964), part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including '' Story of a Prostitute'' (1965) and '' Carmen from Kawac ...

as Ochō * Yoshirō Aoki as Nonaka Tetsutarō *

Ryōhei Uchida was a Japanese ultranationalist political activist, martial artist, and "continental adventurer" ('' tairiku rōnin'') active in the pre-war Empire of Japan. Biography Uchida was born in Fukuoka prefecture. He was the son of '' Shinto Muso-ry ...

as Obuse Keita * Hei Enoki as Tamura Gunji * Shouki Fukae as Honma Ginzō *

Tomiko Ishii is a Japanese actress. Filmography Films *''Gate of Flesh'' (1964), Roku * Daimon Otokode Shinitai (1969) *''The Ramen Girl'' (2009), Megumi Television *''Oshin is a Japanese television, Japanese Asadora, serialized morning television dra ...

as Shibata Chiyo * Yoko Machida as Nonaka Shima *

Ichirō Sugai was a Japanese actor and film director who appeared in more than 300 films in his 45 years spanning career, working with directors such as Kaneto Shindō, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kōzaburō Yoshimura. Biography Sugai was born in Rukahara (now Hig ...

as Goi Kiichirō *

Toru Abe TORU or Toru may refer to: *TORU, spacecraft system *Tōru (given name), Japanese male given name *Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Es ...

as Omori Giichirō

References

External links

* Nikkatsu films Yakuza films Japanese crime films 1960s Japanese-language films 1970s Japanese films 1960s Japanese films Films scored by Hajime Kaburagi {{1970s-Japan-film-stub