Nihon boryoku-dan: Kumicho

Same plot structure, plot points and character types as the earlier (and better) "Gamblers' Ceremony of Disbanding", but presented in a way prefiguring the "Battles Without Honor and Humanity" film series (external narrator, dutch angles, stills, ultra-violent yakuza gang wars, etc.). Some scenes are much less refined than Fukasaku's later output though (they even feel kind of B-grade). Good perfomance from Tomisaburo Wakayama as a brutal, drug-addicted, drinking yakuza boss.