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Japan's Top Gangster
Film / 1973

Japan's Top Gangster

Directed by Kōsaku Yamashita
ActionCrime

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang. This epic film is the first part of greatest true-life series based on autobiography of the Yamaguchi-gumi's third leader, Taoka Kazuo.

The story

A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.
This epic film is the first part of greatest true-life series based on autobiography of the Yamaguchi-gumi's third leader, Taoka Kazuo.

In the same saga

Yamaguchi Gang Collection

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Cast

Ken TakakuraKazuo Taoka Tetsuro TambaNoboru Yamaguchi Bunta SugawaraHachiro Daicho Kunie Tanaka Kyōsuke Machida Rinichi Yamamoto Kayo Matsuo Hiroko Sakuramachi Michitarō Mizushima Haruo Tanaka Asao Uchida Tatsuo Endō
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Eizō Kitamura Hachirō Oka Kenji Kusumoto Shinobu Chihara Akira Shioji Kanjūrō Arashi

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