Film

Dissolution Rites

1967 · 1h 32m · Crime

IMDb

6.7

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.

Koji Tsuruta

Sawaki

Tetsuro Tamba

Sakai

Junko Miyazono

Sachiko

Fumio Watanabe

Shimamura

Misako Watanabe

Mie

Hōsei Komatsu

Asao Uchida

Kawashima

Yasuhiro Komiya

Nobuo Kaneko

Itagaki

Minoru Uezu

Takashi Hio

Aida

Gōzō Sōma

Gurentai

Nobuo Yana

Yasuhara

Hideo Murota

Kyōsuke Machida

Kubo

Harumi Sone

Nishimura

• Kinji FukasakuDirector · Screenplay
• Isao MatsumotoScreenplay
• Eimei YamamotoScreenplay
• Ichirō HoshijimaDirector of Photography
• Isao TomitaOriginal Music Composer
• Osamu TanakaEditor

Release date

April 1, 1967

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 32m

Genres

Crime