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In 1969 future sexploitation specialist Yasuharu Hasebe (Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) teamed up with the inimitable Jo Shishido (Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill) for a follow up to their yakuza hit Massacre Gun. A tale of gang warfare that features a raft of the period's most iconic stars, Akira Kobayashi (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Flowers and the Angry Waves) is a yakuza lieutenant who emerges from jail to find his gang dispersed and his aging boss in his sickbed. Shishido is the rival waiting to kill him and a young Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood) is the girl caught in the crossfire. Gritty and cynical, Retaliation is a hardboiled precursor to Kinji Fukasaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.
Original Release
10/05/1968
US Release
08/22/2017
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Akira Kobayashi | Jirô Sagae / Kojiro Samukawa |
Jô Shishido | Hino |
Hideaki Nitani | Hakozaki |
Tamio Kawaji | Naruse |
Meiko Kaji | Saeko Hayafune / Saeko |
Jirô Okazaki | Jôji / George |
Ryôji Hayama | Masaya Kitakata / Kitakata |
Kaku Takashina | Isobe / Oribe |
Eiji Gô | Nakatsu |
Tatsuya Fuji | Shinjô / Shinjo |
Directors
Writers
Yoshihiro Ishimatsu, Reiji Kubota
Cast
Name | Character |
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Akira Kobayashi | Jirô Sagae / Kojiro Samukawa |
Jô Shishido | Hino |
Hideaki Nitani | Hakozaki |
Tamio Kawaji | Naruse |
Meiko Kaji | Saeko Hayafune / Saeko |
Jirô Okazaki | Jôji / George |
Ryôji Hayama | Masaya Kitakata / Kitakata |
Kaku Takashina | Isobe / Oribe |
Eiji Gô | Nakatsu |
Tatsuya Fuji | Shinjô / Shinjo |
Shôki Fukae | Munezuka |
Jôtarô Togami | Tokuji Hazama |
Keisuke Noro | |
Bumon Kahara | |
Hiroshi Chô | Ioka |
Nobuo Kawakami | Shinsaku Hayafune |
Saburo Hiromatsu | Asaji |
Keisuke Yukioka | Public relations boss |
Kiyoshi Kamoda | |
Sônosuke Niki |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Tetsuro Nakagawa | Producer |