Thugs of Shinjuku

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.

• Release date
• December 18, 1970
• Runtime
• 87 min
• Genres
• Crime
• Director
• Shin Takakuwa

Cast

Bunta Sugawara Makoto Satō Shingo Yamashiro Ryōji Hayama Fumio Watanabe Nobuo Kaneko Rookie Shin-ichi Masao Komatsu