Taisho-era gang wars, forbidden love, and a body count that keeps climbing.
Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie
Direction
Saeki stages chaos with brutal elegance.
Production
Taisho-period detail on what was clearly tight budget.
Director
Kiyoshi Saeki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 1950s yakuza films responding to post-Occupation anxiety about Japanese masculinity and national identity.
Susumu Fujita, fresh off Kurosawa's 'Sanshiro Sugata,' pivoted here to morally compromised antihero—studio contract obligations at work.
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