
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.


“Only crows will cry when I die!”
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.

Tetsuya Watari
Rikio Ishikawa

Tatsuo Umemiya
Kozaburo Imai

Yumi Takigawa
Chieko Ishikawa

Eiji Gō
Makoto Sugiura
Noboru Andō
Ryunosuke Nozu

Reiko Ike
Teruko Imai

Kunie Tanaka
Katsuji Ozaki

Hajime Hana
Shuzo Kawada

Mikio Narita
Noboru Kajiki

Shingo Yamashiro
Hiroshi Tamura
Graveyard of Honor is a crime, action film released in 1975 exploring themes of prison, japan, based on novel or book, self-destruction, gangster, yakuza. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, it stars Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuo Umemiya, Yumi Takigawa. 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.
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