While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
Ken Takakura
Bunta Sugawara
Kyōsuke Machida
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Ryōji Hayama
Michitarō Mizushima
Machiko Yashiro
Bin Amatsu
Tatsuo Endō
Keiji Takamiya
Nobuo Yana
Yoshinobu Hirose
Akira Shioji
Mitsuru Momoyama
Misa Toki
Kinji Nakamura
Shōtarō Hayashi
Masao Hori
Sen Okamichi
Koji Arima
Ryūko Azuma
Yôko Koyama
Minken Karasawa
Yoshihiro Igarashi
Ryō Nishida
Shintaro Nasu
Masaru Shiga
Kinjirô Tooyama
Gorô Naniwa
Daisuke Awaji
Yōko Shimada
Ryōta Minowada
Kinsaku Morishima
Hideo Shimada
Yasumori Hikita
Hideo Fujimoto
Shinobu Akamatsu
Kôsaburô Shirakawa
Shōtarō Ōtsuki
Kiyotaka Nishiyama
Tetsuo Fujisawa
Hiroshi Yahiro
Mieko Hoshino
Mineko Maruhira
Midori Yamada
Teruo Fujinaga
Reiichi Hatanaka
Akira Hirasawa
Seizō Fukumoto
Yoshiaki Yabe
Kenji Ikeda
Ryuji Komine
Gentarō Mori