Description:

Gyangu tai Gyangu - in the early 1960's Director Teruo Ishii was Toei's main purveyor of modern-day yakuza pictures set in the pre-war era.

The plot opens as our hero (Tsuruta) comes out of prison, having served time by taking the blame for a fellow gang member's crime. However, his former gang seems to have gone to seed, becoming a sort of "has-been" and no longer what they used to be, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs.

The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specializes in shaking down gangsters. Together they trace an opium refinery in Kakone and face the evil gangsters in a gun-battle on the slopes of a steep mountain, providing the kind of rural setting for his urban yakuza that was Ishii's trademark.

Director: Teruo Ishii     Writer: Teruo Ishii

Stars: Koji Tsuruta, Tetsuro Tamba, Tatsuo Umemiya

1962 - JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES - B&W - 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 91 MINUTES