Sonogo no Jingi naki Tatakai

[Machine Translation] This is the final installment in the shocking true-crime series that has left an immortal mark on Japanese film history. Director Eiichi Kudo depicts the friendship, betrayal, battles, life, and death of young yakuza at the mercy of a violent internal struggle between the old and new gangs, with a dynamism of light and shadow, developing an "aesthetic of fierceness. --A young leader of the Ishiguro clan, a large Osaka-based organization with 4,500 members in 600 groups nationwide, dies in a traffic accident. Asakura's plot unfolds as he vies for the position of the next head of the Ishiguro clan. Shoji Negishi and Keiichi Mizunuma, young members of the Tatsuno clan in Kitakyushu, hit it off with Toshio Aiba, a young member of the Asakura-affiliated Tsugawa clan, when he was sent to the Asakura clan as an apprentice. As the three continued to interact, Toshio became acquainted with Shoji's younger sister, Akiko, and through the intercession of the Asakura clan leader Tatsuno, they became engaged. However, the Tatsuno clan, which had exchanged a parent-child sake cup with the Asakura clan, is forced to excommunicate Asakura and his group for their paintings, and the head of the Tatsuno clan is murdered by the Fujioka clan, a rival gang to the Asakura clan. The Tatsuno gang is excommunicated because of a painting by Asakura and others. ( Released in May 1979, Toei Kyoto )

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日本映画史上に不滅の足跡を残した衝撃の実録シリーズ最終編。暴力組織の新旧交代に伴う激烈な内部抗争が繰り広げられるさなかで、翻弄される若いヤクザたちの友情、裏切り、戦い、生きざま、死にざまを、監督の工藤栄一が光と影のダイナミズムで描き尽くし、"壮烈の美学"を展開している。――全国に600団体、4,500人の構成員を抱える大阪の大組織・石黒組若頭が交通事故で死亡した。それを受け石黒組系の浅倉組と花村組の組長二人にその座が預けられ、次期組長に繋がるその地位を巡り浅倉は謀略を進行させてゆく。北九州の竜野組若衆・根岸昇治と水沼啓一は浅倉組に行儀見習いとして預けられていた際に、浅倉組系津川組の若衆・相羽年男と意気投合する。その後も3人の交流が続く中で、年男は昇治の妹・明子と知り合い、竜野組長の仲介で婚約をする。だが浅倉組と親子の盃を交わしていた竜野組は、浅倉たちの描いた画により破門に追いやられ、竜野組と敵対する藤岡組により組長が殺害されてしまう。その手引きをしたのは年男だった・・・。(1979年5月公開 東映京都作品)

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