Vengeance for Sale

Feb 16, 2002

1h 28m

★ 6.4

Overview

In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.

Genres

Comedy

Action

Drama

Production Companies

Fuji Television Network

Nikkatsu Corporation

Vengeance for Sale Trailers

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Cast

Sukeroku Sukedachiya

Hiroyuki Sanada

Osen

Kyoka Suzuki

Taro

Takehiro Murata

Umetaro Katakura

Tatsuya Nakadai

Shinkuro Wakiya

Shingo Tsurumi

Hotta

Hirotaro Honda

Otome

Kyôko Kishida

Oribe Sakakibara

Ittoku Kishibe

Okenosuke

Toru Kazama

Undertaker

Keiju Kobayashi

Enemy

Naoto Takenaka

Enemy

Kyūsaku Shimada

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