Bôryoku gai

A first cursory look at VIOLENT STREETS makes it seem that Hideo Gosha reverted back to the programme genre pictures out of which emerged as a bonafide auteur and stylistic visionary five years earlier with bold ambitious jidaigekis like GOYOKIN and HITOKIRI, this time treading ground he never did before in his career, the yakuza picture. Looking closer it becomes obvious that VIOLENT STREETS is both. A genre picture and a stylistic exercise.

Genre(s) : Action,Crime,Drama

Aka(s) :
(original title) - Bôryoku gai
Brazil - Ruas Violentas
Canada - Violent Streets
France - Quartier violent
Germany - Violent City
Japan - 暴力街(Japanese)

Actors :
Noboru Andô Egawa
Akira Kobayashi Yazaki
Isao Natsuyagi Hama
Bunta Sugawara Gizagoro's Dragon
Tetsurô Tanba Shimamura Kansai
Asao Koike Yoshii Haruo
Madame Joy Transvestite Killer
Hideo Murota Mochizuki
Miyoko Akaza Yuko
Minami Nakatsugawa Minami
Ryôji Hayama Futahashi
Maki Kawamura
Rikiya Yasuoka
Hiroshi Tanaka
Kôji Fujiyama
Chikara Gonoue (as Chikara Gonokami)
Tooru Hanada
Takeshige Hatanaka
Takashi Hio
Sei Hiraizumi Haruo
Tamotsu Hiraizumi
Takashi Hiramoto
Yoshinobu Hirose
Hiroshi Ito
Fukunosuke Izumi
Tatsuya Kameyama
Hachirô Kiko
Osamu Kimura
Yoshio Kirishima
Akira Kuji
Naoya Makoto
Yasuko Matsui
Kengo Miyaji
Asuka Miyazaki
Hisao Mizoguchi
Kyôichi Satô Yamaoka
Seiya Satô
Mitsuru Sawa
Kôji Sawada
Kôji Sekiyama
Teruo Shimizu
Haruki Shiro
Shigeji Takada Gohara
Yôichi Takafuku
Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama
Kenji Ushio
Kôichi Yamada
Shôhei Yamamoto
Sakae Yamaura
Nobuo Yana
Shigeru Yokoyama
Kimitaka Ôizumi
Gorô Ôtsuka