A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Shin Saburi Koji Tsuruta Hiroki Matsukata Kō Nishimura Etsushi Takahashi Asao Uchida Bunta Sugawara Shin'ichi Chiba Asao Koike Mikio Narita Shōtarō Hayashi Tsunehiko Watase Tatsuo Umemiya Nobuo Kaneko Etsuko Ichihara Maki Tachibana Sayoko Ninomiya Yōko Koizumi Maki Orihara Shōhei Hino Isao Bitō Takeo Chii Hōsei Komatsu Masaru Shiga Kyoko Nami Junkichi Orimoto Masaya Takahashi Kyōsuke Machida Kunie Tanaka Shûichirô Moriyama Emiko Azuma Michimaro Otabe Ryō Nishida Isao Takanami Kuniomi Kitani Tetsuo Fujisawa Nenji Kobayashi Masataka Naruse Jirô Chiba Seizô Fukumoto Daisuke Awaji Takaya Shimoyama Shunji Sasaki Yūsuke Kazato Takashi Noguchi Shigeru Mizota Kenji Imai Takanori Oya Yasuhiro Suzuki Kojiro Shirakawa Yoshiaki Yabe Ryūji Shinagawa Masaharu Arikawa Eizô Kitamura Kazutarō Kuni Yoshio Kirishima Harumi Sone Ryuji Katagiri Satoru Nabe Sachio Miyagi Masataka Iwao Katsutoshi Akiyama Gorô Ôki Takashi Kanda Mitsuo Nagata Yasuhiko Shima Seishirō Hara Hideo Saeki Kinji Nakamura Tokuko Miura Mitsuko Aoi Miho Manabe Minken Karasawa Kazumasa Negishi Tetsuo Torisu Jiro Shirai Yasumori Hikita Toshio Tomogane Junpei Arishima Fumio Terauchi Yoshinobu Hirose Yûsuke Tsukasa Ryōta Minowada Hiroshi Hatano Kenzô Katsuno
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