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Dissolution Rites

Dissolution Rites

19676.01h 32m

Overview

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Written by Kinji Fukasaku, Isao Matsumoto, Eimei Yamamoto
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Top Cast

Koji Tsuruta

Koji Tsuruta

Sawaki

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

Sakai

Junko Miyazono

Junko Miyazono

Sachiko

Fumio Watanabe

Fumio Watanabe

Shimamura

Misako Watanabe

Misako Watanabe

Mie

Hōsei Komatsu

Hōsei Komatsu

Asao Uchida

Asao Uchida

Kawashima

Y

Yasuhiro Komiya

Nobuo Kaneko

Nobuo Kaneko

Itagaki

M

Minoru Uezu

About Dissolution Rites

Dissolution Rites is a crime film released in 1967. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, it stars Koji Tsuruta, Tetsuro Tamba, Junko Miyazono. Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.

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