Japanese Godfather: Ambition

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

141 mins | Drama, Crime | Oct. 29, 1977

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

141 mins | Drama, Crime | Oct. 29, 1977

Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Producers Toei Company, Ltd.
Original title 日本の首領 野望篇
Directors Sadao Nakajima
Writers Koichi Iiboshi, Kōji Takada

Cast

Shin Saburi

as Kazumasa Sakura

Toshirō Mifune

as Kosuke Oishi

Hiroki Matsukata

as Shiro Matsugae

Bunta Sugawara

as Shinsuke Tembo

Kyôko Kishida

as Naoko Anekoji

Etsushi Takahashi

as Yasuo Ichinomiya

Kyoko Nami

as Yukiko Kawamoto

Takuya Fujioka

as Genkichi Tarui

Eitarō Ozawa

as Daizo Okayama

Kanjūrō Arashi

as Yanosuke Kawamoto

Seizô Fukumoto

as Nobuo Kobayashi

Hiromi Maya

as Anna Motoyama

Sayoko Ninomiya

as Toshiko Ichinomiya

Nobuo Kaneko

as Hirano

Asao Koike

as Akimasa Onizawa

Midori Kanazawa

as Kaoru Miura

Kei Satō

as Sekino

Mikio Narita

as Seiji Kataoka

Fumio Watanabe

as Keizo Tashiro

Emiko Azuma

as Yukie Sakura

Hōsei Komatsu

as Shigemitsu Sanada

Masaru Shiga

as Saburo Murakami

Asao Uchida

as Kikuo Oyama

Kuniyasu Atsumi

as Rentaro Setoyama

Tomio Fujimura

as Hisataro Dan

Torahiko Hamada

as Goto

Masato Hoshi

as Kazunori Shibata

Masataka Iwao

as Giichi Arahama

Shûichirô Moriyama

as Narrator

Kinji Nakamura

as Okuda

Ryō Nishida

as Ichiro Funase

Akira Nishikino

as Yoichiro Wakamiya

Takashi Noguchi

as Kazuo Miyanoura

Hiromi Okamoto

as Toshiko Maeda

Maki Orihara

as Makiko Sakura

Akira Morita

as Hideki Yokokawa

Joshua Romeo

as Al Sanders

Nobiko Sawa

as Natsuko Miho

Sengoro Shigeyama

as Jintoku Ryu

Yasuhiro Suzuki

as Yoshio Shirakawa

Maki Tachibana

as Akiko Minowa

Yoshifumi Tajima

as Masatoshi Kojima

Yusuf Toruko

as Suber Ananta (uncredited)