Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
Direction
Fukasaku's handheld camera work makes panic feel physically contagious.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts that somehow never lose narrative coherence.
Practical Effects
Real car crashes, real explosions, real people actually in danger.
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Japan's 1970s economic anxiety, when 'escaping to Brazil' was a genuine working-class fantasy.
Fukasaku shot this between Battles Without Honor and Humanity films, using the same gritty yakuza aesthetic for bank robbers instead.
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