
Graveyard of Honor(1975)
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.


Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

Yūzō Kayama
Jiro

Kumi Mizuno

Mickey Curtis

Akihiko Hirata

Jun Tazaki

Tadao Nakamaru

Ichirō Nakatani

Yukiko Shimazaki

Eijirō Yanagi

Sachio Sakai
Big Shots Die at Dawn is a crime, action film released in 1961 exploring themes of yakuza. Directed by Kihachi Okamoto, it stars Yūzō Kayama, Kumi Mizuno, Mickey Curtis. Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.
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