VIOLENT STREETS - BLU-UMBERTO LENZI/TOMAS MILIAN COLLECTIO

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• Release Year: 1974
• Genre: Action, Film-Noir, Foreign
• Plot: 'ONE OF THE CROWNING ACHIEVEMENTS IN JAPAN'S YAKUZA CYCLE OF THE 70S. A MUST SEE.'; -Films from the Far Reaches; 'AN INSANE DELIGHT TO BEHOLD.'; -Ruben Rosario, Film Monthly; ; After making his name in the samurai genre, master filmmaker Hideo Gosha (Three Outlaw Samurai, Samurai Wolf turned his camera to the yakuza with VIOLENT STREETS. Legendary gangster-turned-actor Noboru Ando plays Egawa, a retired yakuza underboss who gets pulled back into a life of crime when some of his old cronies demand control of his nightclub. Meanwhile, a gang war quietly roiling behind the scenes spontaneously erupts in response to a high-profile kidnapping, raising the stakes of Egawa's return to the underworld. The result is a kinetic and stylish explosion of deception, mayhem, and violence that leaves no one safe.
• Cast: Noboru Andô, Akira Kobayashi, Isao Natsuyagi, Bunta Sugawara, Tetsurô Tanba, Asao Koike, Madame Joy, Hideo Murota, Miyoko Akaza, Minami Nakatsugawa, Ryôji Hayama, Chikara Gonoue, Sei Hiraizumi, Maki Kawamura, Rikiya Yasuoka, Hiroshi Tanaka, Kôji Fujiyama, Hiroshi Date, Tooru Hanada, Takeshige Hatanaka, Kôji Hio, Tamotsu Hiraizumi, Takashi Hiramoto, Yoshinobu Hirose, Hiroshi Ito, Fukunosuke Izumi, Tatsuya Kameyama, Tetsuya Kikawa, Hachirô Kiko, Osamu Kimura, Yoshio Kirishima, Akira Kuji, Naoya Makoto, Yasuko Matsui, Kengo Miyaji, Asuka Miyazaki, Hisao Mizoguchi, Kôsuke Nakatsuka, Kimitaka Ôizumi, Gorô Ôtsuka, Kyôichi Satô, Seiya Satô, Mitsuru Sawa, Kôji Sawada, Kôji Sekiyama, Teruo Shimizu, Haruki Shiro, Ryô Suga, Shigeji Takada, Yôichi Takafuku, Tadashi Takatsuki, Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama, Kenji Ushio, Kôichi Yamada, Shôhei Yamamoto, Sakae Yamaura, Nobuo Yana, Shigeru Yokoyama, Hideo Gosha, Masahiro Kakefuda, Nobuaki Nakajima
• Director: Hideo Gosha
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Toei Company, Film Movement Classics, Toei Company, Ltd.
• Media Format: Movie