
Street Mobster(1972)
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.



Hiroki Matsukata
Masayuki Ueda

Tatsuo Umemiya
Yuji Suenaga

Tsunehiko Watase
Tagami Kiyomatsu

Naoko Ohtani
Kazuko

Gorō Ibuki
Yoshihara Hiroshi

Yōko Koizumi
Masahiro

Shigeru Kōyama
Takeshi Domoto

Kō Nishimura
Sukezo Kojima

Hōsei Komatsu
Maedo Kanji

Tatsuo Endō
Masuo Tomimatsu
The Rapacious Jailbreaker is a action, crime, thriller film released in 1974 exploring themes of yakuza, jitsuroku. Directed by Sadao Nakajima, it stars Hiroki Matsukata, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tsunehiko Watase. Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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