Bakuto Ichidai Chimatsuri Fudo (1969)
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Saburo Date, Tatsuo Endo, Takeshi Hamada, Machiko Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa
After six years in prison, a yakuza veteran returns to find his former junior entangled in a power struggle over leadership of a major family.
The story
After serving about six years in prison, Jokichi Sakurada visits Yuichi, his junior in the underworld, in Niitsu. He discovers that Yuichi has become the right-hand man of Oto, who is plotting to take control of the Nagamaru family, a major yakuza organization with influence throughout the Hokuriku region. The succession struggle also involves Kitamatsu, viewed as a possible next head. When a subordinate of Kitamatsu attacks Oto and fails, Sakurada suspects Kitamatsu’s involvement and intervenes, drawing him deeper into the conflict.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
After serving a prison sentence of about six years, Jokichi Sakurada visits Yuichi, his junior in the underworld, in Niitsu, only to find that Yuichi has become the right-hand man of a man named Oto, who is scheming to take over as head of the Nagamaru family, a major yakuza organization with influence throughout the Hokuriku region. A subordinate of Kitamatsu, who is also seen as a possible second-generation head of the Nagamaru family, attacks Oto but fails. Sakurada suspects Kitamatsu is behind the attack and tortures the subordinate to get a confession. Feeling sorry for the man as he suffers brutal torture, Jokichi grants his request and kills him. On his way back after delivering the body to Kitamatsu, Sakurada encounters the sister of a man he had once been forced to kill.
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