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unusual facts about yakuza film


Yakuza film

The films star Bunta Sugawara (often thought of as the anti-Ken Takakura) as a sneering ex-soldier who rises to power in the bombed-out Hiroshima underworld.


Yōko Mihara

Following Shintoho's bankruptcy in 1961, Mihara had worked almost exclusively for Toei, including four films in Ishii's Abashiri Prison yakuza film series in 1966 and 1967 and later onsen geisha sexploitation films, eventually becoming a staple actress of the studio's "pinky violence" sub-genre by early 1970s.


see also

Wild Youth

Youth of the Beast, 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki