Noboru Andō

A retired yakuza underboss is pulled back into the life he left behind when he's caught in the middle of a bloody war between two rival clans.

Trying to survive the ruins of post-war Japan, an ex-soldier gets caught working the black market while his partner makes a break for organized crime.

Returning from a ten-year prison sentence, former gang leader Masuo Gunji finds that things have changed, and his turf now has a new leader.

Hoping for a peaceful life after his release from jail, a yakuza member instead finds himself leading a territorial battle for control of Yokohama.

Set during the turbulent post-war years, Fukasaku's original 1975 film charts the rise and fall of real-life gangster Rikio Ishikawa (Tetsuya Watari, Outlaw Gangster VIP). Shot through with the same stark realism and quasi-documentarian approach as Fukasaku's earlier 'Battles Without Honor and Humanity', Fukasaku nonetheless breaks new ground through his portrayal of a gangster utterly without honor or ethics, surviving by any means necessary in a world of brutal criminality.