Graveyard of Honor
(1975)
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Graveyard of Honor
(1975)
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Tetsuya Watari | ... |
Rikio Ishikawa
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Tatsuo Umemiya | ... |
Kozaburo Imai
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Yumi Takigawa | ... |
Chieko Ishikawa
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Eiji Gô | ... |
Makoto Sugiura
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Noboru Ando | ... |
Ryunosuke Nozu
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Hajime Hana | ... |
Shuzo Kawada
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Mikio Narita | ... |
Noboru Kajiki
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Kunie Tanaka | ... |
Katsuji Ozaki
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Shingo Yamashiro | ... |
Hiroshi Tamura
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| Reiko Ike | ... |
Teruko Imai
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Hideo Murota | ... |
Yasuo Matsuoka
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Meika Seri | ... |
Woman in the slums
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Takuji Aoki |
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Kenjirô Asano |
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Hidehiro Aya |
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A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Kinji Fukasaku is worldwide known for his Yakuza movies, different from the typical overall view the cinema had from Yakuzas. This movie is a good example of how far some yakuzas are from honor or pride.
Fukasaku films Jingi no hakaba (Graveyard of Honor) as a mockumentary (fake documentary) which gives more emphasis to the actual yakuza situation. This movie follows the story of Ishikawa, the archetypical post-war gangster (as it's defined in the film). The character development is great, and very surprising. However, you may loose the plot in some points if you don't have an overall knowledge of the Yakuza organization.
In conclusion, a very entertaining gangster movie the Japanese way. I hugely recommend for anyone looking for the roots of most of the Japanese and Hong Kongese gangsters movies nowadays (Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, John Woo, etc.), you won't get disappointed.