RETALIATION

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• Release Year: 1968
• Genre: Action, Drama
• Plot: RETALIATION; ; In 1969, future sexploitation specialist Yasuhara Hasebe (Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) teamed up with the inimitable Jô Shishido (Branded to Kill, Youth of the Beast) for a follow-up to their yakuza hit Massacre Gun.; ; A tale of gang warfare that features a raft of the period’s most iconic stars, Akira Kobayashi (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Flowers and the Angry Waves) is a yakuza lieutenant who emerges from jail to find his gang dispersed and his aging boss is his sickbed. Shishido is the rival waiting to kill him and a young Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood) is the girl caught in the crossfire.; ; Gritty and cynical, Retaliation is the hardboiled precursor to Kinji Fukasaku’s revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.
• Cast: Akira Kobayashi, Aki Sakawa, Yuki Hisamoto, Satoko Satô, Keiko Hara, Hiroshi Kôno, Iwae Arai, Shirô Ôhama, Saburo Hiromatsu, Nobuo Kawakami, Keisuke Yukioka, Jotaro Togami, Jo Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Hiroshi Cho, Meiko Kaji, Jirô Okazaki, Tamio Kawachi, Kaku Takashina, Eiji Go, Tatsuya Fuji, Shoki Fukae, Ryoji Hayama, Keisuke Noro, Bumon Kahara, Kiyoshi Kamoda, Sonosuke Niki, Shinzo Shibata, Terue Shigemori, Tomoko Aki, Akira Takahashi, Yuzo Harumi, Koji Seyama, Kokan Katsura, Jirô Hiratsuka, Mitsuru Sawa, Tessen Nakahira, Kuniya Mizukawa, Michihiro Arimura, Ken Mizoguchi, Ken'ichi Shikita, Masahiro Yafuji, Tadayuki Kitagami, Hiroomi Kagawa, Shiro Oh-Hama, Akiyoshi Fukae, Naoichi Fueda, Hitoro Hiratsuka, Shûji Kagawa, Futaki Kusanosuke, Tetsu Nakahira, Akiko Sagawa, Mizuru Sawa, Masatoshi Takase, Masahiro Yatô, Yasuharu Hasebe, Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, Keiji Kubota, Tetsuro Nakagawa, Muneo Ueda, Mutsuo Tanji, Hajime Kaburagi, Akiyoshi Satani
• Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
• Runtime: 1:35
• Company: Nikkatsu, Arrow Video
• Media Format: Movie