Yakuza Graveyard

Yakuza Graveyard

Japanese release poster
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kazuo Kasahara
Starring Tetsuya Watari
Music by Toshiaki Tsushima
Cinematography Toru Nakajima
Edited by Isamu Ichida
Distributed by Toei
Release dates
 October 30, 1976
Running time
 92 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Yakuza Graveyard, known in Japan as Yakuza no Hakaba: Kuchinashi no Hana (やくざの墓場　くちなしの花, "Yakuza Burial: Jasmine Flower"), is a 1976 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara is based on a concept by Norimichi Matsudaira, Naoyuki Sugimoto and Kyo Namura.

Complex named it number 17 on their list of The 25 Best Yakuza Movies.[1] Kino International released the film on DVD in North America in 2006.[2]

Plot

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Cast
  • Yasuo Matsumoto as Masao Konichi
  • Kenta Mayumi as Osamu Fujioka
  • Satoshi Nahen as Ikuma
  • Mineko Maruhira as Sugimika
  • Masaharu Arikawa as Toshio Ezaki
  • Nobuo Yana as Nobuhisa Ezaki
  • Hideo Shimada as Yoshiichi Okawara
  • Teruo Fujinaga as Takashi Ueshima
  • Shimoyama Takaya as Mizutani
  • Tetsuo Ashida as Nishio
  • Chisao Miyagi as Koike
  • Kojiro Shirakawa as Asai
  • Kuniomi Kitani as Isamu Okutani
  • Takashi Shirai as Miyazaki
  • Shigeru Inoue as Okamoto
  • Katsutoshi Akiyama as Kiyoshi Takeuchi
  • Yasuhiro Suzuki as Kenkichi
  • Masataka Iwao as Masaharu Kusumoto
  • Toshiyuki Sasaki as Noburo Miyake
  • Shotaro Hayashi as Kito
  • Toshio Tomogane as Hirokoshi
  • Kazuo Kasahara as Kizu
  • Masami Kodaka as Bito
  • Takashi Ienoshima as Shinkichi Arai
  • Kinji Nakamura as Bunpei Shinzaki

References

  1. ↑ "The 25 Best Yakuza Movies". Complex. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
  2. ↑ "Yakuza Graveyard". Kino International. Retrieved 2014-08-30.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/2/2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.