1974 • Japan • Directed by Hideo Gosha

After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (Three Outlaw Samurai, Samurai Wolf) turned his camera to the world of the yakuza and the violent streets they control. Legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays Egawa, a retired yakuza underboss who gets pulled back into a life of crime when some of his old cronies demand control of his nightclub. Meanwhile, a gang war quietly roiling behind the scenes spontaneously erupts in response to a high-profile kidnapping, raising the stakes of Egawa's return to the underworld. The result is a kinetic and stylish explosion of deception, mayhem, and violence that leaves no one safe.