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In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals, Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
Keywords
yakuza
shōwa era (1926-89)
ninkyo-eiga
任侠
アクションドラマ
Casts

Hideki Takahashi
Ryuji Oshima

Masako Izumi
Haruko

Kenjirō Ishiyama
Shozaburo Oshima

Akira Nagoya
Saiga

Yukiko Todoroki
Kiyo Murata

Asao Koike
Tatsu

Hiroshi Kondō
Yuzo

Shirō Ōsaka
Kanzo

Ichiro Kijima
Matsukawa

Yuzo Kiura
Kudo

Nakajirō Tomita
Nishino

Shōbun Inoue
Mukaino

Shosei Muto
Tsukamoto
Shuntaro Tamamura
Gondo

Nobuo Kawakami
Ueki
Kan Sugi
Ejima
Someshō Matsumoto
Tokudano
Keisuke Yukioka
Hospital Director

Shirō Yanase
Tsubo furi

Jūkei Fujioka
Lieutenant Colonel Sagawa

Akira Takahashi
Kōtarō Sugie
Tsuneo Katagiri
Crews

Akinori Matsuo
Director
Hisataka Kai
Screenplay
Kazumi Iwasa
Director of Photography
Kyosa Yoshida
Lighting Technician
Tsugio Yonezu
Sound Recordist
Yoshinaga Yoko'o
Art Direction
Shinya Inoue
Editor
Koji Chino
Assistant Director

Hajime Kaburagi
Original Music Composer