As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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Bunta Sugawara Tatsuo Umemiya Toshio Kurosawa Kunie Tanaka Shingo Yamashiro Ichirō Ogura Akio Hasegawa Shinichirō Mikami Isao Natsuyagi Yoko Horikoshi Toshie Kimura Sanae Nakahara Mayumi Nagisa Nobuo Kaneko Asao Koike Asao Uchida Tatsuo Endō Takeshi Katō Hiroki Matsukata Akira Kobayashi Nobuo Yana Seizô Fukumoto Ryuji Katagiri Ryō Nishida Mitsuko Aoi Emi Jo Masako Araki Yoshio Yoshida Hideo Murota Mizuho Suzuki Takashi Noguchi Isao Takanami Gorô Ôki Masazumi Okabe Nenji Kobayashi Kojiro Shirakawa Masaharu Arikawa Harumi Sone Manabu Hokuto Kinji Nakamura Minken Karasawa Daisuke Awaji Yasuhiro Suzuki Tetsuo Ashida Yoshihiro Igarashi Naoya Makoto Ryōta Minowada Tetsu Sakai Masataka Iwao Tsuiyuki Sasaki Shinji Oda Yoshinobu Hirose Yasumori Hikita Masaru Shiga Chū Takatsuki Katsuji Heiwa Kyôko Tsukasa Mineko Maruhira Kayoko Fukunaga Jiro Shirai Kuniomi Kitani Ryuji Komine Toshio Matsuda Ryôzô Maekawa Tetsuo Torisu Yûsuke Tsukasa Yasuo Matsumoto Mitsuru Sawa Hideo Shimada Yoshiki Yamada Yasushi Ôki Kenji Ikeda Tamaro Murata Yukitomo Tochino Kenichi Matsuda Tomiko Hirose Rieko Ôi Hideo Fujimoto Gentarô Mori Takuzō Kawatani Yukio Miyagi
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