Film

The Murder Corps

2001 · 1h 24m

Nishinari, Osaka— Katsuhiro Tokuyama (Ryu Gan), who had been living as a civilian, gives in to repeated pleas from his former comrades and revives the delinquent gang Tokuyama-kai. The Tokuyama-kai begins seizing territory one after another from local yakuza groups. However, a clash with Nishinari’s largest prostitution syndicate, Shiraku-kai, becomes inevitable. Shiraku-kai retaliates by murdering one of Tokuyama-kai’s members, Shinjiro Nakanishi (Kyosuke Yabe), and kidnapping Katsuhiro’s only son, Nishiki. Swearing vengeance for Shinjiro and the rescue of Nishiki, six men arm themselves with Japanese swords and head for the Shiraku-kai headquarters. Waiting for them are 100 elite swordsmen, the Shiraku-kai’s fearsome “Batto-tai.” Six against one hundred. The curtain rises on a brutal, fearless battle where death holds no meaning.

雁龍太郎

Rikiya Yasuoka

Kazuyoshi Ozawa

Yasukaze Motomiya

Taisei Miyamoto

迫英雄

Kyosuke Yabe

Yoko Ishino

タイヘイ夢路

Chikage Natsuyama

Shōhei Yamamoto

Hakuryu

Sonny Chiba

• 南部秀夫Director

Release date

August 21, 2001

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 24m