Ôkami Yakuza: Koroshi wa Ore ga Yaru (1972)
Genre: Action / Crime
Duration: 87 minuten
Alternative titles: Yakuza Wolf - I Perform Murder / The Lone Assassin / 狼やくざ 殺しは俺がやる
Country:
Japan
Directed by: Ryuichi Takamori
Stars: Sonny Chiba, Kôji Nanbara and Makoto Satô
IMDb score:
6,6 (294)
Releasedate: 11 January 1972
Ôkami Yakuza: Koroshi wa Ore ga Yaru plot
Izumi Shojiro, the president of a large organization that wants to expand to Yokohama, tries to win over the Himuro family, a local exporter. But the boss, Gentaro Himuro, refuses and is then killed by Shojiro. Gentaro's son, named Gosuke, returns from Okinawa for the first time in five years to hear the tragic news. He vows to take revenge on Shojiro and his organization. Gosuke also tries to find his sister Kyoko, who has become involved in the plot and is now missing.
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Nasty! Yakuza Wolf winks at the spaghetti western, from which a lot of stylistic features are adopted, including the Morricone-like music. Only the makers move the whole concept to the gangster environment in Japan. Gosuke Hinomi (Sonny Chiba), the son of a murdered yakuza, has two goals: to avenge his father and find his sister. He puts different gangs against each other for this.
A lot of violence, and women are not spared either. This is a particularly misogynistic film. Including a woman who gets gangraped, where one thug cums loose in his pants before it's his turn . It is sometimes all sprinkled with a bit of humor, but otherwise it is not tender. Chiba usually plays a crappy anti-hero, but Lee Van Cleef was also in the Sabata films, so no problem. Not bad and sometimes nice and stylishly shot, except for the crappy action scenes that are edited messily.
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