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Final Episode

Original title: Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen
  • 19741974
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.1K
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Final Episode (1974)
  • Action
  • Crime
  • Drama
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.1K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Writers
    • Koichi Iiboshi(story)
    • Kôji Takada
  • Stars
    • Seizô Fukumoto
    • Nobuo Kaneko
    • Jô Shishido
Top credits
  • Director
    • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Writers
    • Koichi Iiboshi(story)
    • Kôji Takada
  • Stars
    • Seizô Fukumoto
    • Nobuo Kaneko
    • Jô Shishido
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 8User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
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    Top cast

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    Seizô Fukumoto
    Seizô Fukumoto
    • Tamotsu Matsumuraas Tamotsu Matsumura
    Nobuo Kaneko
    Nobuo Kaneko
    • Yamamorias Yamamori
    Jô Shishido
    Jô Shishido
    • Katsutoshi Otomoas Katsutoshi Otomo
    • (as Joe Shishido)
    Bunta Sugawara
    Bunta Sugawara
    • Shozo Hironoas Shozo Hirono
    Yasuhiro Suzuki
    • Sakichi Sugitaas Sakichi Sugita
    Kunie Tanaka
    Kunie Tanaka
    • Makihara Masakichias Makihara Masakichi
    Nobuo Yana
    • Ryôsuke Kagaas Ryôsuke Kaga
    Hiroko Fuji
    Gorô Ibuki
    Gorô Ibuki
    Ryûji Katagiri
    Takuzô Kawatani
    Kin'ya Kitaôji
    Akira Kobayashi
    Akira Kobayashi
    Hiroki Matsukata
    Ryô Nishida
    Yumiko Nogawa
    Yumiko Nogawa
    Takashi Noguchi
    Junkichi Orimoto
    • Director
      • Kinji Fukasaku
    • Writers
      • Koichi Iiboshi(story)
      • Kôji Takada
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      In one of the final scenes, several yakuza members approach a theatre playing Onna Toseinin, aka Okoma: The Orphan Gambler (1971) and ogle the poster featuring Sumiko Fuji as the latter movie's theme music plays. Onna Toseinin is a "ninkyo eiga" or "chivalry film" in which yakuza are portrayed in a romanticized way as honorable, upstanding citizens, or cool, wandering gamblers. This is certainly meant as a strong contrast to the "jitsuroku eiga" / "actual record film", or true crime style of this Battles Without Honour and Humanity series, in which modern yakuza are more accurately portrayed as brutally destructive, craven goons engaging in chaotic violence and murder. Ironically, Yumiko Nogawa who appears in this film as a yakuza wife, 12 years earlier appeared in an early ninkyo eiga series of her own as a similar wandering woman gambler character, Toba no mesu neko (1965).
    • Connections
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    User reviews8

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    2/10
    Final Episode
    I would have said "awful" but the other films were so great! It was such a disappointment after watching the others. At the end of the film there were too many loose ends, so much left behind unresolved with no closure for the main character or more importantly, the viewer. At this point in the series, I was having problems as well with everyone's inability to hold a gun straight. And why were they always falling down on the people they shot?

    All I can say is that if this is based on the memoirs of a Yakuza boss, and these films held true to story... only then can I accept this "real" ending. Otherwise what a let down. Maybe I'm just sad it's over.
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    • glwright
    • Mar 14, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • June 29, 1974 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 5: Final Episode
    • Filming locations
      • Hiroshima Peace Park, Hiroshima, Japan
    • Production company
      • Toei Company
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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