Gambling Code and Feuds

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.

Cast

Hiroki Matsukata

Denkichi Umino

Joe Shishido

Katsuya Sekikawa

Atsuo Nakamura

Ginzô Katahara

Hiroyuki Nagato

Fusajirô Konno

Rumi Matsumoto

Setsuko Umino

Kenichi Sakuragi

Asao Koike

Yoshimatsu Sasamoto

Hiroshi Kondō

Kunio Naito

Masaru Shiga

Kazuo Wakamatsu