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- Movie: Gokudo no onna-tachi: Kejime
- Romaji: Gokudo no onna-tachi: Kejime
- Japanese: 極道の妻(おんな)たち 決着(けじめ)
- Director: Sadao Nakajima
- Writer: Shoko Ieda, Koji Takada
- Producer: Goro Kusakabe
- Cinematographer: Seizo Sengen
- Release Date: January 17,1998
- Runtime: 116 min.
- Studio: Toei
- Distributor: Toei
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly corroding the clan's cohesion. Ginji, it turns out, was mired in debt. After Ginji borrowed a small fortune to build a luxury resort, his bank went belly up and stopped financing the loan. Frantic for funds, he decided as a last resort to rat out his boss who had skimmed five-billion yen from the gang. Soon everyone assumes that Idei did the hit. Convinced that Idei is being framed, Tamaki sets out to find the real killer.
Notes
- Based on a weekly magazine expose written by Japanese journalist Shoko Ieda, who spent nearly a year interviewing many real life Yazkua wives.
- Related films:
- The Yakuza Wives (1986)
- Gokudo no onna-tachi: Akai kizuna (1995)
- Gokudo no onna-tachi: Kejime (1998)
- Yakuza Wives: Burning Desire (2005)
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