From these places come many unknown yakuza, from these places come many famous yakuza. With the change of locations, an ultra-violent film from Kinji Fukasaku about the environment of the yakuza and survival in it, landed in the snowy towns of the picturesque Hokuriku. Here unfolds the story of the clawed path in the local criminal world, with bloody thoroughness - on the bodies and heads, the young and ambitious Noboru Kawada, who with his decisive actions brews porridge and this entails a lot of trouble from competitors and foreign hostile elements. The guy he is in his plan what is necessary - calculating and active, of those who have a thumb on the fuse, index on the trigger, the other hand with a shine firmly clutches the handle of the sharp blade.
Hiroki Matsukata – I respect the actor, fully play the roles of hardened gangsters. I like his gangster images, here he is also handsome - tearing up and raving, leaving behind chops, crushed heads and a cold-blooded look. But he also gets all the blame for his recklessness. Against his harshness is Sonny Chiba as a daring Kanai - a kind of commissioned Cossack from Osaka, a representative of the crime syndicate, who with his cavalry is sent to solve a conflict problem, take control and crush the territory, expand the influence of his organization. He has a frisky Noboru on the way across the road, and for Kanai and his local allies, the main thing is to make more holes in an undesirable stubborn problem and send a bully to the next world to host. In Hokuriku, not only are snowballs played, the surroundings turn into a frightening battlefield, the snow-white landscapes around are regularly scarlet, each other is generously fed with lead olives, strung and sekut in consumption.
Strong film work turned out in the classic Kinji Fukasaku, he knows how to teach skillfully with knowledge of his business - credit. Showing a completely different revolutionary directorial style, Fukasaku does it again and again, does not lose his energy, but behind the master was already a lot of work in this clear genre form. He also works technically with cameras, like discharging pistols, tinkering with undeniable handwriting. Ai da Toshiaki Tsushima, praise for the music, his bass is something!