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Dynamite Don-Don (1978)
Directed by Kihachi Okamoto
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Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?
Length 142 minutes
Actors
Bunta Sugawara | Junko Miyashita | Kinya Kitaoji | Kunie Tanaka | Kanjûrô Arashi | Nobuo Kaneko | Shin Kishida | Frankie Sakai | Ichirô Nakatani | Casey Takamine | Hiroko Isayama | Masaya Nihei
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/28/2025 | TV | Broadcast | Other | 6 stars |
| (Average) 6 stars |
Viewing Notes
Also known as Noisy Dynamite. Another foreign baseball movie, this time set in post-war Japan, revolving around competing yakuza deciding to solve their differences by forming baseball teams to compete in a tournament. A weird, at times wacky, mashup of yakuza and sports genres.
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