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Thugs of Shinjuku
Genres
Crime
Overview
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.
Details
Budget
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Revenue
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Runtime
87 min
Release Date
1970-12-18
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
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Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
Bunta Sugawara
Makoto Satō
Shingo Yamashiro
Ryōji Hayama
Fumio Watanabe
Nobuo Kaneko
Rookie Shin-ichi
Masao Komatsu
Shizuko Kasagi
Tōru Yuri
Hiroshi Minami
Misa Toki
Kōji Sekiyama
Kenji Ushio
Genji Kawai
Kyōichi Satō
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Ken'ichi Kikuchi
Hajime Kubo
Kimitaka Ôizumi
Chie Kobayashi
Yoshiko Iwamoto
白石鈴雄
Ryō Suga
池本慶且
Nenji Kobayashi
Seiya Satō
Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama
Tatsuya Kameyama
Takeshige Hatanaka
Koji Miemachi
Hiroshi Date
Nobuo Yana
Tetsuya Kigawa
山科雄資
菅原壮男
Tomotaka Ueda
Iwao Dan
Kiyome Takemura
Akikane Sawa
Mayumi Kajiwara
Kosaku Okano
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