Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
| 31 January 1970 (USA)
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It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.

Reviews
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
GUENOT PHILIPPE Whao!!! I was not disappointed by this yakuza film, made by the great director who gave us so many masterpieces. Although there is no real surprise in this predictable story of fierce, cruel war among gangs in the 60's Japan. We find here Bunta Sugawara and Koji Tsuruta, the usual actors for Fukasaku's films. Tsuruta is not the lead, but his characters is as poignant as usual, in other films. He plays here an old hood just released from jail who help his old friend Sugawara against a huge bunch of gangsters. Friendship, honour, manhood where women are invisible - or nearly - and a sort of chivalry among hoods. The ending reminds me another Fukasaku masterpiece: BAKUTO GAJIN BUTAI, starring Tsuruta - him again - and the magnificent Ando Noburu. Never miss a Fukasaku movie, especially when it is a yakuza one.But only, of course, if you are a die hard "afficionado" like me. The craziest ones.