Description:

Ryuji - Shoji Kaneko writes and stars in this cult film; an excellent piece of cinema about the life of a yakuza and his family.

Ryuji Hanashiro is at a crossroads. He's enjoyed both infamy and untold wealth as a yakuza for the Santokai Gang, but lately Ryuji has grown tired of the money, the gambling and the women. It's the fact that he will always be faced with death, death at any moment from a rival gangster or an untrustworthy friend.

Besides all of that, his life as a yakuza is keeping Ryuji from the two things he loves the most -- his little daughter Aya and his wife Mariko. Now Ryuji lives without his family, Mariko having taken their daughter to Kyushu as she petitions Ryuji for a divorce. But maybe, just maybe, Ryuji can do what his yakuza mentor did years before -- leave the gangster life for good and go straight.

But going straight may be the most difficult thing that Ryuji has ever done.

Director: Toru Kawashima

Stars: Shoji Kaneko, Eiko Nagashima and Koji Kita

1983 – JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES – COLOR – 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 92 MINUTES