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Yakuza Graveyard (1976)

Yakuza Graveyard poster
Original title
やくざの墓場 くちなしの花
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Genre
action film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 36 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police detective goes undercover in a yakuza gang. He gets pulled into their brutal world and faces moral conflicts.

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What happens

Yakuza Graveyard, known in Japan as Yakuza no Hakaba: Kuchinashi no Hana (やくざの墓場 くちなしの花; "Yakuza Burial: Jasmine Flower"), is a 1976 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara is based on a concept by Norimichi Matsudaira, Naoyuki Sugimoto and Kyo Namura. Complex named it number 17 on their list of The 25 Best Yakuza Movies. Kino International released the film on DVD in North America in 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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