Wild Spirit

Wild Spirit

1967 · 89 min · Action, Crime

It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.

Directed by Kiyoshi Saeki · Written by Eimei Yamamoto

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Tatsuo Umemiya Eijiro Kikukawa
Ryō Ikebe Kyohei Shigemasa
Hideo Sunazuka Manaita no Hide
Miyuki Kuwano Okei
Jōji Tsurumi Yûkichi
Michitarō Mizushima Ichinosuke
Ryūtarō Tatsumi Mitsuami
Seizaburō Kawazu Somegorô Kurogane
Hiroshi Nawa Sarumura
Nobuo Yana Kanbayashi
Hayato Tani Seijurô
Yuki Jōno Oaki

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