STREET MOBSTER - BLU-ARROW VIDEO

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• Release Year: 1972
• Genre: Action, Crime
• Plot: A pivotal work in the yakuza movie genre and in the career of director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale, Doberman Cop), Street Mobster presents an abrasive portrait of the rise and fall of a reckless street punk caught in the crossfire of a bloody turf war.; ; Okita Isamu (Bunta Sugawara, Cops VS Thugs) re-emerges onto the mean streets of Kawazaki after five years in prison for a string of brutal crimes, and comes face to face with prostitute Kinuyo (Mayumi Nagisa, Battles Without Honor and Humanity). She immediately recognizes him as one of the participants in the brutal sexual assault years earlier that left her shell-shocked and consigned to the life of a sex worker. The two outcasts form an unlikely bond, and Okita returns to his criminal ways. He is approached by veteran gangster Kizaki (Asao Koike), who encourages him to round up a group of local chinpira street punks to shake up the uneasy agreement between two rival yakuza groups who control the city’s bars, gambling dens and red-light districts. However, when the new outfit goes too far into the turf of the big boys, they find themselves caught in a violent reprisal, before an offer of patronage appears from an unlikely source.; ; Street Mobster is the first film in which Fukasaku’s vital and exhilarating approach to the contemporary-set gangster picture was paired with the untamed, raw charisma of Japan’s top screen mobster Sugawara Bunta. The film would change the life of both, paving the way for their subsequent collaborations on the landmark Battles Without Honour and Humanity series that began the following year.
• Cast: Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Nobuo Yana, Mayumi Nagisa, Asao Koike, Noboru Mitani, Nenji Kobayashi, Kyôsuke Machida, Hideo Murota, Asao Uchida, Mayumi Fujisato, Kinji Fukasaku, Yoshihiro Ishimatsu
• Director: Kinji Fukasaku
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: Toei Company, Ltd., Arrow Films
• Media Format: Movie