Street Mobster (1972)

Original title

現代やくざ 人斬り与太

Directed by

Kinji Fukasaku

Genre

yakuza film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 48 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A street thug gets out of prison after ten years and finds the yakuza world and Japanese society have changed. He struggles to fit back in and clashes with the new order.

grittyintensecynicalfast-pacedbrutalrawurgentvisceraldisorienting

What happens

Street Mobster, known in Japan as Gendai Yakuza: Hitokiri Yota (現代やくざ　人斬り与太), is a 1972 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Bunta Sugawara and Noboru Ando. It is the sixth installment in Toei's Gendai Yakuza series of unrelated films by different directors, all starring Sugawara. Shot on location in Kawasaki, the plot centers around Okita, a street thug and troublemaker released from prison after ten years only to discover that the criminal underworld in which he used to operate and the socio-political landscape of Japan has changed dramatically. Complex named it number 3 on their list of "The 25 Best Yakuza Movies". Home Vision Entertainment released the movie on DVD in North America in 2004. Arrow Films released a special edition blu-ray in Europe and North America in June, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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