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family member become self-sustaining and limit the kickbacks, which only
Shinkai and Yano vote against. Shinkai begins plotting with the surviving Doi Family members to kill Sakai. When it's revealed that Yamamori is selling the drugs he confiscates from the other members for personal profit, Sakai and Ueda threaten him and reveal their intention to take over the family. Yamamori has Arita kill Ueda in a barbershop and war breaks out between the two sides. The conflict ends quickly: Shinkai's men and the Doi Family members are murdered by Sakai's associates, Arita shoots a police officer who tries to arrest him and gets a life sentence, and Shinkai is stabbed to death before he can board a train to escape the city.
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veteran Shozo Hirono is sent to prison after shooting a sword-wielding yakuza who assaulted his friend. He befriends and becomes sworn brothers with another prisoner, Doi Family member
Hiroshi Wakasugi, who arranges for Yoshio Yamamori, Patriarch of the Yamamori Family, to bribe the prison warden and
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and learns about the strife in the Yamamori Family. When Yamamori asks him to kill Sakai, he instead asks Sakai to make peace with Yamamori. Instead, Sakai forces Yamamori to retire, crowns himself the family's new patriarch, forms an investment company with Yamamori's money, and starts negotiating
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due to the high kickbacks the boss takes off their earnings. Sakai and Shinkai, who are now high-ranking officers in the family, feud when Shinkai's subordinate, Toshio Arita, deals against Yamamori's orders. Sakai, agreeing with Shinkai that the boss's take is too high, offers a plan to have each
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leader Tatsuo Yamamura and was killed. He envisioned Bunta Sugawara portraying the character (he later learned Sugawara had already been cast in the role), but said the day before shooting Sugawara was instead cast as Hirono (who is based on Minō) and Hiroki Matsukata took over as Sakai (Sasaki).
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in apology to Okubo. Okubo accepts, but asks Yamamori to take Ueda into his family and perform a favor for corrupt politician Shigeto Nakahara by eliminating a vote for his rival Shoichi Kanamaru, who is supported by the Doi Family in a political dispute over allotment of public resources. Sakai
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without permission, before the team left as quickly as possible. Upon filming on location in Kure, many yakuza, including those used as models for characters in the film, gathered on set. They gave advice to both the director and actors; decades later, Tatsuo Umemiya who plays Hiroshi Wakasugi,
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Awards; it won the Reader's Choice for Best Film, Bunta Sugawara received Best Actor, and Kazuo Kasahara received Best Screenplay. In 2009, the magazine named it fifth on an aggregated list of the Top 10 Japanese Films of All Time as voted by over one hundred film critics and writers. Previous
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Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Bunta Sugawara) and Best Screenplay (Kazuo Kasahara). In 2009, the magazine named it fifth on a list of the Top 10 Japanese Films of All Time. Due to the series' commercial and critical popularity it was followed by another three-part series,
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being shot "guerilla-style" with hand-held cameras at the actual location and with civilian passersby giving real reactions. For example, knowing they would never get permission, the scene where the character Uichi Shinkai is stabbed to death at
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has been released on home video and aired on television, the latter with some scenes cut. In 1980, the first four films were edited into a 224-minute compilation and was given a limited theatrical release and broadcast on Toei's TV network. A
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took place. The young people had similar feelings to those of the post-war society depicted in the films. Yamane also stated that for the rest of his career Fukasaku was approached many times by producers to create movies similar to
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of bombed-out Hiroshima in 1946, the film spans a period of more than ten years. The plot consists of a changing of the guard of new families and organizations with the same feuds and people, punctuated by the gritty violence.
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2146:Ceremony of Disbanding
1649:"Cannes Classics 2015"
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1463:British Film Institute
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727:British Film Institute
2496:Sure Death 4: Revenge
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1689:] (in Japanese).
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414:as Masakichi Makihara
2647:1970s Japanese films
2607:Japanese crime films
2170:Blackmail Is My Life
2114:Wolves, Pigs and Men
1894:Original film series
1653:Cannes Film Festival
1133:on October 17, 2007.
1021:on October 17, 2007.
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967:. pp. 135–136.
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838:on November 22, 2008
692:Reception and legacy
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277:Hiroshima Prefecture
252:. The screenplay by
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2084:The Proud Challenge
1720:on January 7, 2007.
1177:on October 6, 2014.
830:Croce, Fernando F.
408:as Hiroshi Wakasugi
244:is a 1973 Japanese
2622:Toei Company films
2504:A Chaos of Flowers
2397:Message from Space
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2333:Cross the Rubicon!
2317:Graveyard of Honor
2186:Black Rose Mansion
2154:Gambler's Farewell
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