
Sworn Brothers
1969-02-22 · 90 min · ★ 8.3
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.
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- Directors
- Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Production companies
- Daiei Film
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Raizō IchikawaJokichi Sakurada
Jūshirō KonoeKojiro
Machiko HasegawaHatsu
Ryūnosuke KanedaKitamatsu Itizou
Yoshio KaneuchiWajima
Kenjirō Ishiyama
Nakajirō TomitaSugitani Risaburou
Tatsuo EndōGozo
Yasuhiro Minakami
Gen Kimura
Kōichi MizuharaKurosaki
Yūji Hamada
Eigorō Onoe
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