Hokuriku Proxy War

A yakuza organisation from Osaka is aiming to spread across the country. For that it moves into the snowy Hokuriku region. Hokuriku is a region of Japan that lies under snow in winter. There are already gangs settled there, and they do not want the newcomers. A bloody turf war breaks out between the two sides. The film shows that war as a business rather than making heroes of anyone. The work sits inside the Japanese gangster cinema of the seventies. The work is one of Kinji Fukasaku’s yakuza films. Hiroki Matsukata and Sonny Chiba appear in Fukasaku’s Japanese film of 1977, ninety eight minutes long.