Those Swell Yakuza (1988)

Name: Those Swell Yakuza
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Released: 1988
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 6.0
Cast: Takanori Jinnai, Yumi Aso, Rie Nakahara, Ginji Ga?, Yasushi Ono

1h 49m Japan

Crime Comedy

Plot

Ryo, a young ex-banker, finds himself in dire straits after a gambling debt leads to a brutal beating. Just as hope seems lost, a yakuza boss intervenes, offering him a lifeline. Grateful for the rescue, Ryo makes a pivotal choice to embrace the underworld lifestyle and train as a yakuza. His journey into this dangerous realm is filled with challenges and moral dilemmas as he adapts to his new identity and confronts the complexities of loyalty, honor, and power within the yakuza hierarchy.

Cast

Takanori Jinnai Yumi Aso Rie Nakahara Ginji Ga? Yasushi Ono Daisuke Nagakura Jun Ueno Kinz? Sakura Hirotaro Honda Kazuma Matsubara Ryuji Katagiri Yûko Ishiwa Noriko Takayama Machiko Washio Hideo Murota