Movie: Brothers Serving Time

Top 10 Billed Cast

Ken Takakura
高倉健

Bunta Sugawara
菅原文太

Tatsuo Yaguchi

Kyōsuke Machida
待田京介

Danshichi

Tomisaburō Wakayama
若山富三郎

Ryōji Hayama
葉山良二

Michitarō Mizushima
水島道太郎

Matsui

Machiko Yashiro
八代万智子

Bin Amatsu
天津敏

Tatsuo Endō
遠藤太津朗

Keiji Takamiya
高宮敬二

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1969-05-03

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    8

  • Rating:

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    日本語
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