Street Mobster

Street Mobster (1972)

現代やくざ 人斬り与太

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

Date of release
1972-05-06
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (48)
Runtime
1h 32m
Genres
Crime, Action, Thriller
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Collection
A Modern Yakuza

Casting

Interesting facts

Street Mobster, known in Japan as Gendai Yakuza: Hitokiri Yota (現代やくざ 人斬り与太), is a 1972 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Bunta Sugawara and Noboru Ando. It is the sixth installment in Toei's Gendai Yakuza series of unrelated films by different directors, all starring Sugawara. Shot on location in Kawasaki, the plot centers around Okita, a street thug and troublemaker released from prison after ten years only to discover that the criminal underworld in which he used to operate and the socio-political landscape of Japan has changed dramatically. Complex named it number 3 on their list of "The 25 Best Yakuza Movies".

Production

When he was chosen to direct the sixth installment in the Gendai Yakuza ("Modern Yakuza") series, Fukasaku decided to depict a low-ranking street thug who gets caught up in the world of the yakuza. Scriptwriter Yoshihiro Ishimatsu brought in a first draft, but the director thought it was too similar to his 1971 film Sympathy for the Underdog and took to rewriting it personally.

The film's lead, Bunta Sugawara, who had yakuza friends, said he gave Fukasaku many suggestions while filming, such as how someone who had never shot a gun would do so.

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