Trials of an Okinawa Village

Nov 19, 1971

1h 36m

★ 6.0

Overview

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.

Genres

Action

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Sumiko Fuji

Minoru Ōki

Kyōsuke Machida

Toshiaki Minami

Kenji Ushio

Eizō Kitamura

Shōtarō Hayashi

Masaharu Arikawa

Daisuke Awaji

Isao Takanami

Aiko Onaga

Ichitarō Kuni

Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza members reduced to less than 60,000. In the past 3 years, about 20,000 members have left from Yakuza organizations. However, just numbers can’t tell you the reality. What are they thinking, how are they living now? The camera zooms in on the Yakuza world. Are there basic human rights for them?

5.5

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7.1

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6.0

The Ando Gang Documentary Film

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7.2

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2.0

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Feb 22, 1993

A good-natured, but a useless man who loves horse racing and spends all of his family's precious money on it, and a young man who is his lover, who always forgives and accepts him. The love story of these two people is depicted in a gentle and emotional way, filmed on location in the Kansai region.

7.0

Parfum Fraise

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0.0

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Dec 7, 2001

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5.9

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7.0

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0.0

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow

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6.5

Snake of Violence

Feb 22, 2013

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5.0

Game of Chance 3

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6.8

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

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Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.

6.0

Holler

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In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.

4.6

Into the Sun

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6.2

Graveyard of Honor

Jun 22, 2002

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

0.0

やくざ番外地　抹殺

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No overview available.

6.7

Street Mobster

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0.0

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