Film

A True Record: The Last Sōkaiya

2001 · 1h 40m · Action · Drama

A sharp exposé of Japan’s dark underworld!!

Ōhara Ryūji (Riki Takeuchi) becomes unable to manage his life due to debts from baseball gambling. He goes to Tokyo, practically fleeing in the middle of the night, but his innate love of gambling doesn’t disappear, and he even lays his hands on the money at his workplace. At that time, someone suggests that he should become a sōkaiya. In order to repay his debts, he begins training to become one. Then, he starts to search for the true path of a sōkaiya…

Riki Takeuchi

Ōhara Ryūji

Mansaku Fuwa

Izawa

Mao Shiina

Kana

Ryo Karato

Kamizono Mamoru

Yuto Nakano

Sakashita

Dohei Donpei

Maruyama

Hirotaro Honda

Shimabara

Atsushi Narasaka

Kawasaki

Ryuji Yamamoto

Electric shop owner

Tarō Suwa

Mitsuhashi

Masahiro Noguchi

Representative in charge of the Dainichi Transport shareholders’ meeting

Manzo Shinra

Sōkaiya (corporate extortionist)

Yūken Yoshida

Sōkaiya (Shirabara’s aide)

• Takeshi WatanabeDirector
• Hiroyuki TsujiWriter
• Hitoshi NakajimaProducer
• Seiichi OnoExecutive Producer
• Naoki AbeExecutive Producer
• Shigeru KomatsubaraDirector of Photography
• Torsten RaschOriginal Music Composer
• Yoshinori OtaEditor

Release date

August 21, 2001

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Action, Drama