| Release Date: | Oct 2010 |
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| Genres: | Drama / Crime |
| Runtime: | 109 min |
| Cast: | Takeshi Kitano (Ôtomo (as Beat Takeshi)), Kippei Shiina (Mizuno) Ryo Kase (Ishihara) Tomokazu Miura (Katô) Jun Kunimura (Ikemoto) Tetta Sugimoto (Ozawa) Takashi Tsukamoto (Iizuka) Yuka Itaya (Otomo's woman) Hideo Nakano (Kimura) Renji Ishibashi (Murase) Fumiyo Kohinata (Kataoka) Sôichirô Kitamura (Kan'nai) Kenta Elizabeth III () Tokio Emoto (Emoto) Akiko Kobayashi (Mamasan) Masaki Miura (Sannokai thug) Kenji Morinaga (Abe) Junko Nakamura (Dentist) Jun'ichi Nitta (Sannokai thug) Kenji Ohhara (Sannokai thug) Tadashi Sakata (Okazaki) Eihi Shiina (Call girl) Makita Sports () Yuya Takayama (Cop) Yukiyo Tanahashi (Hostess) Tsutomu Tsuji (Cop) Tomo Uchino (Murase thug) Naoko Watanabe () |
The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai clan holds sway in the face of constant betrayal and ever-changing allegiances. Sanmo-kai chairman Ototomo (played by Kitano himself) learns that his henchman Ikemoto has struck an alliance with the drug-dealing Murase family, and is not best pleased, to say the least. The ensuing retaliation triggers an orgy of killings, territorial invasions and score settling while law enforcement officers, too corrupt to intervene
