Description:

Yokohama ankokugai mashingan no ryu - Bunta is his usual excellent self as our "hero," a machine gun wielding gangster who pals around with bikers and commits robberies with his mother.

Ryu is a low life criminal who, with the aid of his equally criminal mom, steals a valuable shipment of drugs from a local crime syndicate. The pair hide the drugs in a wall deep within a sewer and lay low, hopefully until the media attention and mob interest dies down, but their identity is discovered when a newspaper picture of the heist's aftermath clearly shows that a machine gun had been used to mow down the drug mules.

Automatic weapons are hard to come by in Japan, so the ripped-off crime boss sends his men to find out who sold the particular weapon, thereby learning the thief's identity in the process. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, the mother and son duo must contend with corrupt cops, the irritated local yakuza boss, and his equally-pissed-off American mafia partners.

A definite thumbs up if you're a Yakuza flick fan!

Director: Akihisa Okamoto

Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Aiko Mimasu, Yutaka Nakajima and Sonny Chiba

1978 – JAPANESE with OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES – COLOR – 16:9 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN - 94 MINUTES