Yakuza Graveyard
| Yakuza Graveyard | |
|---|---|
 Japanese release poster | |
| Directed by | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Written by | Kazuo Kasahara |
| Starring | Tetsuya Watari |
| Cinematography | Toru Nakajima |
| Edited by | Isamu Ichida |
| Music by | Toshiaki Tsushima |
| Distributed by | Toei |
Release date | October 30, 1976 |
Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.[1] Kino International released the film on DVD in North America in 2006.[2]
Plot
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
Cast
- Tetsuya Watari as Ryu Kuroiwa
- Meiko Kaji as Keiko Matsunaga
- Tatsuo Umemiya as Goro Iwata
- Hideo Murota as Hidaka
- Nobuo Kaneko as Akama
- Harumi Sone as Katsugi Kanai
- Takuzo Kawatani as Kajiyama
- Jiro Yabuki as Hideo Wakamoto
- Jukei Fujioka as Kojima
- Yoshio Yoshida as Takashi Yamashiro
- Kin Sugai as Kimiyo Wakamoto
- Takao Yagi as Hatsue Arai
- Mikio Narita as Nozaki
- Junkichi Orimoto as Takechi Hatano
- Nagisa Oshima as Muramoto
- Kei Sato as Teramitsu Abara
- Takuya Fujioka as Masaki Sugi
- Kenji Imai as Shunji Matsunaga
- Nenji Kobayashi as Akira Kitajima
- Yasuo Matsumoto as Masao Konichi
- Kenta Mayumi as Osamu Fujioka
- Satoshi Nahen as Ikuma
- Mineko Maruhira as Sugimika
- Masaharu Arikawa as Toshio Ezaki
- Nobuo Yana as Nobuhisa Ezaki
- Hideo Shimada as Yoshiichi Okawara
- Teruo Fujinaga as Takashi Ueshima
- Shimoyama Takaya as Mizutani
- Tetsuo Ashida as Nishio
- Chisao Miyagi as Koike
- Kojiro Shirakawa as Asai
- Kuniomi Kitani as Isamu Okutani
- Takashi Shirai as Miyazaki
- Shigeru Inoue as Okamoto
- Katsutoshi Akiyama as Kiyoshi Takeuchi
- Yasuhiro Suzuki as Kenkichi
- Masataka Iwao as Masaharu Kusumoto
- Toshiyuki Sasaki as Noburo Miyake
- Shotaro Hayashi as Kito
- Toshio Tomogane as Hirokoshi
- Kazuo Kasahara as Kizu
- Masami Kodaka as Bito
- Takashi Ienoshima as Shinkichi Arai
- Kinji Nakamura as Bunpei Shinzaki
References
- ^ "The 25 Best Yakuza Movies". Complex. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
- ^ "Yakuza Graveyard". Kino International. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
External links
- Yakuza Graveyard at IMDb
- Review of the film
- Vista Records Review of the film
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