Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
Koji Tsuruta
Tetsuro Tamba
Junko Miyazono
Fumio Watanabe
Misako Watanabe
Hōsei Komatsu
Asao Uchida
Yasuhiro Komiya
Nobuo Kaneko
Minoru Uezu
Takashi Hio
Gōzō Sōma
Nobuo Yana
Hideo Murota
Kyōsuke Machida
Harumi Sone
Shoichi Kuwayama
Yoshiro Ichikawa
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Akiyoshi Kasuga
Keiichi Kitagawa
Toru Ibuki
Masakazu Kuwayama
Ryō Suga
Shunji Kasuga
Kosaku Okano
Katsuo Tagawa
Yuko Minakaze
Jiro Miyaguchi