Directed by:
Kinji FukasakuScreenplay:
Kinji FukasakuComposer:
Yamashita TakeoCast:
鶴田浩二, 若山富三郎, 渡瀬恒彦, 今井健二, Harumi Sone, Tôru Yuri, Asao Uchida, Hideo Murota, Keijiro Morozumi, Keiichi Kitagawa, Hiroshi Hasegawa, 高品格, Takashi Hio, 河合絃司 (more)Plots(1)
Stylish and hard-boiled, Sympathy for the Underdog stars Koji Tsuruta, one of Japan's seminal figures in the Yakuza genre, as Gunji, an aging Yakuza who is released from prison after ten years. Gunji lives by a code of honor that has no place among Tokyo's modern corporate gangs. He gets a new lease on life by reforming his former gang and taking over the whiskey trade on the island of Okinawa. But he is forced to make a final, fateful, bloody stand against the mainland gang that sent him to prison. (official distributor synopsis)
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鶴田浩二
Japan
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若山富三郎
Japan
Best movies:
Revenge (1963)
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
渡瀬恒彦
Japan
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The Defensive Power of Aikido (1975)
Antarctica (1983)
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
今井健二
Japan
Best movies:
Last Samurai (1974)
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Champion of Death (1975)
Harumi Sone
Japan
Best movies:
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Quick-draw Okatsu (1969)
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Tôru Yuri
Japan
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Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Inferno of Torture (1969)
Asao Uchida
Best movies:
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
The End of Summer (1961)
Hideo Murota
Japan
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A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
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Keijiro Morozumi
Japan
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Early Spring (1956)
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Keiichi Kitagawa
Japan
Best movies:
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
Hiroshi Hasegawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Bullet (1968)
Shintaro Katsu's Zatoichi (1989)
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高品格
Japan
Best movies:
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Tattooed Life (1965)
Underworld Beauty (1958)
Takashi Hio
Best movies:
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Okatsu the Fugitive (1969)
河合絃司
Japan
Best movies:
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Karate Warriors (1976)
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Chie Kobayashi
Japan
Best movies:
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Quick-draw Okatsu (1969)
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Noboru Andô
Japan
Best movies:
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Violent Streets (1974)
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
小池朝雄
Japan
Best movies:
Antarctica (1983)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deathmatch in Hiroshima (1973)
The Geisha (1983)
Tadao Nakamaru
Japan
Best movies:
Samurai Assassin (1965)
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
Jirô Chiba
Best movies:
The Defensive Power of Aikido (1975)
The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
The Street Fighter (1974)
Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Best movies:
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
Diaries of the Kamikaze (1967)