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
Denkichi Umino
Joe Shishido
Katsuya Sekikawa
Atsuo Nakamura
Ginzô Katahara
Hiroyuki Nagato
Fusajirô Konno
Rumi Matsumoto
Setsuko Umino
Kenichi Sakuragi
Unknown
Asao Koike
Yoshimatsu Sasamoto
Hiroshi Kondō
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Kunio Naito
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Masaru Shiga
Kazuo Wakamatsu
Saburo Date
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Aki Takejo
Harumi
Hanako Tokachi
Tomiko Konno
Ryō Nishida
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