Jun 28, 1969
88 min
Full-HD

Ruthless Gambler (1969)

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his lover is tortured by the enemy, but rescued by the imprisoned young man's nemesis.

Category

Action Crime Drama

Country

Japan

Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

Chieko Matsubara

Tetsuya Watari

Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Hiroko Ogi

Hiroyuki Nagato

Shōki Fukae

Hiroshi Kondō

Kaku Takashina

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