Yakuza Graveyard

Yakuza Graveyard
Japanese release poster
Directed by	Kinji Fukasaku
Written by	Kazuo Kasahara
Starring	Tetsuya Watari
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Cinematography	Toru Nakajima
Edited by	Isamu Ichida
Distributed by	Toei
Release dates	October 30, 1976
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Yakuza Graveyard, known in Japan as Yakuza no Hakaba: Kuchinashi no Hana (やくざの墓場　くちなしの花, "Yakuza Burial: Jasmine Flower"), is a 1976 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The screenplay by Kazuo Kasahara is based on a concept by Norimichi Matsudaira, Naoyuki Sugimoto and Kyo Namura.

Complex named it number 17 on their list of The 25 Best Yakuza Movies.^[1] Kino International released the film on DVD in North America in 2006.^[2]

Plot

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Cast

Tetsuya Watari as Ryu Kuroiwa Meiko Kaji as Keiko Matsunaga Tatsuo Umemiya as Goro Iwata Hideo Murota as Hidaka Nobuo Kaneko as Akama Harumi Sone as Katsugi Kanai Takuzo Kawatani as Kajiyama Jiro Yabuki as Hideo Wakamoto Jukei Fujioka as Kojima Yoshio Yoshida as Takashi Yamashiro Kin Sugai as Kimiyo Wakamoto Takao Yagi as Hatsue Arai Mikio Narita as Nozaki Junkichi Orimoto as Takechi Hatano Nagisa Oshima as Muramoto Kei Sato as Teramitsu Abara Takuya Fujioka as Masaki Sugi Kenji Imai as Shunji Matsunaga Nenji Kobayashi as Akira Kitajima

Yasuo Matsumoto as Masao Konichi Kenta Mayumi as Osamu Fujioka Satoshi Nahen as Ikuma Mineko Maruhira as Sugimika Masaharu Arikawa as Toshio Ezaki Nobuo Yana as Nobuhisa Ezaki Hideo Shimada as Yoshiichi Okawara Teruo Fujinaga as Takashi Ueshima Shimoyama Takaya as Mizutani Tetsuo Ashida as Nishio Chisao Miyagi as Koike Kojiro Shirakawa as Asai Kuniomi Kitani as Isamu Okutani Takashi Shirai as Miyazaki Shigeru Inoue as Okamoto Katsutoshi Akiyama as Kiyoshi Takeuchi Yasuhiro Suzuki as Kenkichi Masataka Iwao as Masaharu Kusumoto Toshiyuki Sasaki as Noburo Miyake Shotaro Hayashi as Kito Toshio Tomogane as Hirokoshi Kazuo Kasahara as Kizu Masami Kodaka as Bito Takashi Ienoshima as Shinkichi Arai Kinji Nakamura as Bunpei Shinzaki

References

1. "The 25 Best Yakuza Movies". Complex. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
2. "Yakuza Graveyard". Kino International. Retrieved 2014-08-30.

External links

• Yakuza Graveyard at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of the film
• Vista Records Review of the film