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Rating: 7 stars

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All movies seen on 12/07/2023

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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War (1976)

Directed by Sadao Nakajima

Action | Crime | Drama

Overview

Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.

Length 96 minutes

Actors

Hiroki Matsukata | Sonny Chiba | Tsunehiko Watase | Mikio Narita | Tatsuo Umemiya | Hideo Murota | Isao Bito | Takeo Chii | Shizumi Shindo | Isao Ôdo | Yoshihiro Igarashi | Masaru Shiga | Harumi Sone | Emi Shindo | Jirô Chiba | Kan Mikami | Hiromi Maya | Aoi Nakajima | Tadashi Naruse | Junkichi Orimoto

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Another film in this box set where Chiba isn’t the main character. I don’t mind this in the least but I do find it funny. Here he plays a pretty rough second tier character who’s wildly violent at a pin drop. I had no idea that Okinawa wasn’t returned to Japan until the ‘70s.

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