Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu

Apr 8, 1977

1h 27m

★ 7.0

Overview

After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Toei Company

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Cast

Tetsuji Gondo

Bunta Sugawara

Yasuo Fujiwara

Makoto Satō

Eisaku Daimon

Mikio Narita

Kenji Igarashi

Tamio Kawachi

Katsuya Nishigaki

Yoshirō Aoki

Harumi

Etsuko Ikuta

Noboru Ishikawa

Hiroshi Tachi

Shohei Iwaki

Nobuo Yana

Kazuo Matsunaga

Akira Nishikino

Jiro Noro

Joji Takano

Saburo Date

Kōji Fujiyama

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