Sympathy for the Underdog
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- Movie: Sympathy for the Underdog
- Romaji: Bakuto gaijin butai
- Japanese:
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Writer: Kinji Fukasaku, Fumio Konami, Hiro Matsuda
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- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
From Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor & Humanity) the director celebrated for changing the face of Japanese action cinema, comes this pivotal crime drama. Stylish and hard-boiled, Sympathy for the Underdog stars Koji Tsuruta, one of Japan’s seminal figures in the Yakuza genre, as Gunji, an aging Yakuza who is released from prison after ten years. Gunji lives by a code of honor that has no place among Tokyo’s modern corporate gangs. He gets a new lease on life by reforming his former gang and taking over the whiskey trade on the island of Okinawa. But he is forced to make a final, fateful, bloody stand against the mainland gang that sent him to prison.
Cast
- Koji Tsuruta - Gunji
- Noboru Ando - Shark
- Kenji Imai - Mad Dog Jiro
- Akiko Kudo
- Kenjiro Morokado - Gushken
- Hideo Murota
- Tomisaburo Wakayama - Yonabaru - Koza downtown boss
- Tsunehiko Watase
- Rinichi Yamamoto - Haderuma
