The Boss (1965)

7.0/10 91 min Crime

Overview

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is ordered to acquire the rights to work to level the reclaimed land and prevent the Doshikai from expanding from Kansai into Tokyo, but the interference of the Koda-gumi, associated with the Kansai Doshikai, intensifies. Nakagami's younger brother Hayami, unhappy that the situation is moving slowly, tries to blackmail the mayor into moving forward, but... A true Toei gangster film with an all-star cast including Koji Tsuruta and Ken Takakura!

Cast

Ken Takakura

Koji Tsuruta

Yoshiko Sakuma

Yoshiko Mita

Shigeru Amachi

Harumi Sone

Kyōsuke Machida

Shinjirō Ehara

Sumiko Fuji

Hiroyuki Nagato

Takamaru Sasaki

Tōru Abe

Meichō Soganoya

Minoru Ōki

Asao Uchida

Jun Usami

Tatsuo Endō

Takashi Kanda

Fumitake Ōmura

Kenji Ushio

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