880-01 Bakuchi uchi sōchō tobaku = Big time gambling boss / produced by Hiroshige Goto and Keichi Hashimoto ; screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara ; directed by Kosaku Yamashita.
Koji Tsuruta, Nobuo Kaneko, Tomisaburo Wakayama. Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1968. Wide screen (2.35:1) Special features: High definition digital transfer of the film; Ninkyo 101; Serial gambling; Gallery of promotional imagery; Trailer; Newly translated English subtitles; Limited edition 28 page booklet.
Summary:
Tokyo, 1934. Gang boss Arakawa is too ill and a successor must be named. The choice falls on Nakai, but being an outsider he refuses and suggests senior clansman Matsuda instead. But Matsuda is in jail and the elders won't wait for his release, so they appoint the younger and more malleable Ishido to take the reins. Clan honour and loyalties are severely tested when Matsuda is released, resulting in an increasingly violent internal strife.
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