It's a long time now that I have reviewed a Japanese crime film, and I have so many in my library. My favourite period is the sixties till the seventies, the Kinji Fukasaku era. More or less social oriented topics, showing poverty, ghettos, violence. This one is not at the level of Fukasaku however and the topic not very different from the other ones of these decades: a hoodlum gets out of jail and of course gets back to his former violent life, this for various reasons. Tetsuya Watari was from same generation as Noburu Ando, Koji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Takakura Ken, all famous gangsters roles actors. This gangster social movie is not bad at all and I am surprised that it was shown in France twenty years ago, aired on a movie channel.
