Overview
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.
Cast
- Hiroki Matsukata as Denkichi Umino
- Joe Shishido as Katsuya Sekikawa
- Atsuo Nakamura as Ginzô Katahara
- Hiroyuki Nagato as Fusajirô Konno
- Rumi Matsumoto as Setsuko Umino
- Kenichi Sakuragi
- Asao Koike as Yoshimatsu Sasamoto
- Hiroshi Kondō
- Kunio Naito
- Masaru Shiga as Kazuo Wakamatsu