The Shadow's Edge
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Film / 1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
The story
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
Cast
Bunta SugawaraShozo Hirono
Kinya KitaojiShoji Yamanaka
Meiko KajiYasuko Uehara
Sonny ChibaKatsutoshi Otomo
Hiroshi NawaTsuneo Muraoka
Mikio NaritaHiroshi Matsunaga
Gin MaedaKoichi Shimada
Asao KoikeKunimatsu Takanashi
Shingo YamashiroShozo Eda
Hideo MurotaKeisuke Nakahara
Tatsuo EndōKanichi Tokimori
Yoshi KatōChoji Otomo
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Kinji NakamuraToshio Kuramitsu
Nobuo KanekoYoshio Yamamori
Toshie KimuraRika Yamamori
Seizō FukumotoYamanaka
Takuzō KawataniMitsuo Iwashita
Junko MatsudairaBar Hostess
Eizō KitamuraIshida Eisuke
Akira ShiojiPriest
Nobuo YanaTakuya Asano
Hōsei KomatsuMakoto Narasaka
Manabu KitajuKunisada Seiji
Naotsugu UzakiNakano Yujiro
Gorō ŌkiSuga Masao
Kazutarō KuniHamida Ryukichi
Masaru ShigaTerada Keiichi
Yoshinobu HiroseKamiya Eiji
Kōjiro ShirakawaSukefuji Nobuyuki
Masao HoriKageura Chojiro
Toshio KitagawaMikami Yoshiki
Kuniomi KitaniShimojo Shoichi
Tetsuo FujisawaKatakura Katsumi
Yasuo MatsumotoIwami Masuo
Tetsu SakaiNarrator
Ryuji KatagiriKawaguchi Yoshio
Masataka IwaoWada
Yûsuke TsukasaYumino Osamu
Yukio MiyagiDetective Sano
Shunji SasakiTomoda Takashi
Takashi NoguchiMasuo Iwami
Minken Karasawa
Yasuhiro Suzuki
Ryō Nishida
Katsutoshi Akiyama
Takanori Oya
Gentarō Mori
Hiroshi Hatano
Kunitaro Yanagi
Toshio Matsuda
Shinji Oda
Tatsunori Koga
Taiji Nishimura
Aki Takagi
Reiko Mikawa
Fusae Hashimoto
Kaya Hozumi
Takeshi Kumagai
Gorō Naniwa
Junichi Hosokawa
Ichizo Obayashi
Tomiko Hirose
Ikuko Takaishi
Yasushi Ôki
Kazuyuki Kosaka
Kiyotaka Nishiyama
Tetsuo Torisu
Ryōzō Maekawa
Masaya Wada
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