Duel in the Storm

Duel in the Storm

1968 · 93 min · ★ 10.0 · Action, Crime, Drama

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.

Directed by Akinori Matsuo · Written by Seiji Hoshikawa

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Akira Kobayashi Seijiro Tamimura
Hideki Takahashi Naoaki Yagiri
Ryotaro Sugi Sakichi Kawanaga
Yumiko Nogawa Okyô Kawanaga
Ichirō Sugai Jisuke Sawaiya
Yōko Yamamoto Koyuki
Hiroshi Kondō Tamezo Hondo
Kenji Imai Shimazo Hondo
Masahiko Tanimura Hokke-Masa
Shirō Yanase Sohachi
Keisuke Noro Ginji
Yūji Hori Botanya

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