Street Mobster (1972) on Netflix
Out of prison after ten years, Isamu Okita comes home to Kawasaki, where two yakuza factions run the streets. Kizaki proposes they raise a gang of local punks against Boss Takigawa.
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Isamu Okita was born on August 15, 1945, the day and year Japan surrendered, which he considers inauspicious. His mother, an alcoholic prostitute who later sold street food, neglected him until she drowned walking home. With no education and no money, he was sent to reform school twice, then formed a gang as a teenager, running extortion and selling girls to brothels in Kawasaki. The Takigawa family demanded a cut; he refused, was beaten, answered with a knife, and got ten years in prison. Released, he finds Kawasaki divided among yakuza families, and Kizaki proposes a new gang.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Street Mobster (1972)
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- While writing Street Mobster in a cheap hotel in Shinjuku, director Kinji Fukasaku could not work because he was too absorbed in televised coverage of the Asama-Sansō incident, and he told critic Sadao Yamane he tried to work its "thrilling essence" into the film.
- Scriptwriter Yoshihiro Ishimatsu delivered a first draft of Street Mobster that director Kinji Fukasaku judged too similar to his own 1971 film Sympathy for the Underdog, so Fukasaku rewrote the script himself.
- Lead actor Bunta Sugawara, who had yakuza friends, said he gave director Kinji Fukasaku many suggestions during filming, including how a man who had never fired a gun would do it.
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