Thugs of Shinjuku (1970)

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.

Cast (42)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Bunta Sugawara

Makoto Satō

Shingo Yamashiro

Ryōji Hayama

Fumio Watanabe

Nobuo Kaneko

Rookie Shin-ichi

Masao Komatsu

Shizuko Kasagi

Tōru Yuri

Hiroshi Minami

M

Misa Toki

Kōji Sekiyama

Kenji Ushio

Genji Kawai

Kyōichi Satō

Tomisaburō Wakayama

K

Ken'ichi Kikuchi

H

Hajime Kubo

K

Kimitaka Ôizumi

C

Chie Kobayashi

Yoshiko Iwamoto

白

白石鈴雄

R

Ryō Suga

池

池本慶且

Nenji Kobayashi

S

Seiya Satō

T

Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama

T

Tatsuya Kameyama

T

Takeshige Hatanaka

K

Koji Miemachi

H

Hiroshi Date

Nobuo Yana

T

Tetsuya Kigawa

山

山科雄資

菅

菅原壮男

T

Tomotaka Ueda

Iwao Dan

K

Kiyome Takemura

Akikane Sawa

M

Mayumi Kajiwara

K

Kosaku Okano

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