Sympathy for the Underdog Movie Review 1971

Old-fashioned yakuza Masuo Gunji (Tsuruta) is released after a 10-year prison stint and discovers that all the dock action has been commandeered by the Daitokai crime syndicate. So he gets his former crew together and tells them he wants to muscle in on the black market in Okinawa instead. This doesn't prove to be so easy. There's a suitably bloody final showdown between the criminal gangs. Japanese with subtitles.

Distribution

Home Vision Cinema, c/o Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste. 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, URL: http://www.homevision.com

Available on DVD
Running time 93 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Ex-Cons, Yakuza

Screenplay

Kinji Fukasaku, Hiro Matsuda, Fumio Konami

Cast

Koji Tsurata, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase, Noboru Ando, Kenji Imai, Akiko Kudo

Cinematography

Hanjiro Nakazawa

Director

Kinji Fukasaku

Music

Takeo Yamashita