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Thugs of Shinjuku
Thugs of Shinjuku

Thugs of Shinjuku

Genres

Crime

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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.

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

87 mins

Rating

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Release Date

18 December 1970

Country

Japan

Cast

Bunta Sugawara

Bunta Sugawara

Makoto Satō

Makoto Satō

Shingo Yamashiro

Shingo Yamashiro

Ryōji Hayama

Ryōji Hayama

Fumio Watanabe

Fumio Watanabe

Nobuo Kaneko

Nobuo Kaneko

Rookie Shin-ichi

Rookie Shin-ichi

Masao Komatsu

Masao Komatsu

Shizuko Kasagi

Shizuko Kasagi

Tōru Yuri

Tōru Yuri

Hiroshi Minami

Hiroshi Minami

Misa Toki

Misa Toki

Kōji Sekiyama

Kōji Sekiyama

Kenji Ushio

Kenji Ushio

Genji Kawai

Genji Kawai

Kyōichi Satō

Kyōichi Satō

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Ken'ichi Kikuchi

Ken'ichi Kikuchi

Hajime Kubo

Hajime Kubo

Kimitaka Ôizumi

Kimitaka Ôizumi

Chie Kobayashi

Chie Kobayashi

Yoshiko Iwamoto

Yoshiko Iwamoto

白石鈴雄

白石鈴雄

Ryō Suga

Ryō Suga

池本慶且

池本慶且

Nenji Kobayashi

Nenji Kobayashi

Seiya Satō

Seiya Satō

Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama

Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama

Tatsuya Kameyama

Tatsuya Kameyama

Takeshige Hatanaka

Takeshige Hatanaka

Koji Miemachi

Koji Miemachi

Hiroshi Date

Hiroshi Date

Nobuo Yana

Nobuo Yana

Tetsuya Kigawa

Tetsuya Kigawa

山科雄資

山科雄資

菅原壮男

菅原壮男

Tomotaka Ueda

Tomotaka Ueda

Iwao Dan

Iwao Dan

Kiyome Takemura

Kiyome Takemura

Akikane Sawa

Akikane Sawa

Mayumi Kajiwara

Mayumi Kajiwara

Kosaku Okano

Kosaku Okano

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