Sworn Brothers

Feb 22, 1969

1h 30m

★ 8.3

Overview

Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Daiei Film

Sworn Brothers Trailers

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Cast

Jokichi Sakurada

Raizō Ichikawa

Kojiro

Jūshirō Konoe

Osono

Mitsuyo Kamei

Hatsu

Machiko Hasegawa

Kitamatsu Itizou

Ryūnosuke Kaneda

Wajima

Yoshio Kaneuchi

Kenjirō Ishiyama

Sugitani Risaburou

Nakajirō Tomita

Mitsuko Tanaka

Gozo

Tatsuo Endō

Yasuhiro Minakami

Masao Sugiura

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