Retaliation

6.7

/10

1h 34mAction & Adventure Crime Action Drama

In 1969 future sexploitation specialist Yasuharu Hasebe (Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) teamed up with the inimitable Jô Shishido (Branded to Kill, Youth of the Beast) for a follow up to their yakuza hit Massacre Gun. A tale of gang warfare that features a raft of the period’s most iconic stars, Akira Kobayashi (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Flowers and the Angry Waves) is a yakuza lieutenant who emerges from jail to find his gang dispersed and his ageing boss in his sickbed. Shishido is the rival waiting to kill him and a young Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood) is the girl caught in the crossfire. Gritty and cynical, Retaliation is a hardboiled precursor to Kinji Fukasaku’s revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.

Spoken language: ja

Starring Akira Kobayashi, Jō Shishido, Tamio Kawachi, Tatsuya Fuji, Hideaki Nitani, Eiji Gō, Jirô Okazaki, Meiko Kaji, Shōki Fukae, Ryōji Hayama

Watch "Retaliation" from streaming services Google Play, Amazon, Apple TV+ (itunes) released in 1968. It's a action & adventure and crime movie, and has a rating of 6.7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.