When loyalty becomes a death sentence, which price gets paid first?
A dispute also occurred at the Hitachi Union, an organization next to the Kanto Ichienkai, to which Hitoshi and Yoshiro belong. It is said that the emerging Komada group is in a state of immediate action aiming at the long-established Fujishiro group's sima. Voices of anxiety began to rise even within the Kanto Ichienkai due to the turmoil of the neighboring organization. And it was also the fear of the Kanto full-scale war that would come if the emerging Komada group won the Hitachi Union. Sakai, the chairman of the Ichienkai, immediately entrusts Yoshiro with the task of collecting the situation and infiltrates the Imamura group, which is a subordinate organization of the Hitachi Union.
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Riki Takeuchi's simmering intensity threatens every frame
Direction
Matsui's matter-of-fact violence hits harder than stylized bloodshed
Director
Noboru Matsui
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Part of the sprawling Jingi series that defined 1990s Japanese direct-to-video yakuza cinema, reflecting real anxieties about bubble-era gangster mythology collapsing.
Riki Takeuchi shot this during his most prolific period—he appeared in over a dozen V-cinema yakuza films in 1997-1998 alone, becoming the face of the genre's desperate masculinity.
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