Okinawa Yakuza War (沖縄やくざ戦争)

The film is based on a true story of gang warfare in okinawa. However the characters

and the organisations are fictitious, and are not related to existing institutions.

Toei

okinawa - otherwise known as koza

the year after okinawa's reversion to Japan (1972).

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Welcome!

This way, please.

What are you doing?

Brother!

Brother!

Brother!

Brother!

...out of my way! ...Stop this!

Chief! Chief! Are you alright?

Ichikawa! Why didn't you stop him?

You think he'd stop?

Shut up!

Brother...

It's an important time for the kunigami group.

Just imagine what would happen if we fuck this up.

This place will turn into a heaven for the ryuseikai gangs.

I don't care about the naha people.

I just can't stand the yamatos.

...what can we do? Okinawa has reverted to Japan.... I never agreed to anything!

The reversion is their problem.

It must've been a good deal for you. You've certainly benifited from it.

Brother, haven't you told the young ones why I went to prison?

Ishikawa.

Apologise to brother.

Apologize!

Wait!

Wait. I will tell him. Sit down.

Seven years ago, I killed two men.

The reason you are able to comfortably make a living without worries...

Is because of those two murders.

...right, bro? ...Yes, that's true.

You guys remember that.

That's why I... when I got out of prison...

I was looking forward to half of koza being mine.

I understand, bro.

Leave it all to me.

Bro...

It's been 2 months since you've said that.

I have 30 young ones working for me.

I can't make them starve themselves any longer.

Hey, bro...

Could you give it some thought?

Koza city holds the biggest American military

base in the far east. It's a nightlife mecca.

It is the embodiment of post-war okinawa.

Hiroki matsukata

tsunehiko watase

megumi shindo jiro yabuki

for many years, the kunigami, chadan, and nakaguku gangs shared the territory,

but in 1968, nakazato and his disciples, including seizi chihara,

eliminated the chadan and the nakaguku gangs, and captured koza city.

Nakazato took the entire rap and he was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment.

But, as okinawa reverted to Japan, a gang from mainland Japan began to emerge.

As a result, the kunigami gang from koza and the oshiro gang from naha...

Formed a grand alliance against the mainlanders.

This is how the okinawa allied ryusei group was formed in 1971.

However, this irregular institution,

headed by seigo kunigami and chogo oshiro, was inherently unstable,

as if it were a volcano that could explode anytime.

Okinawa yakuza war

naha city

how's mommy?

Pissed off. Write to her once in a while.

Meh. Been too busy.

Hiroshi, be good when you're in front of the father.

Eh, I beg of you.

"Skeletal remains found under cenotaph"

it's seiji.

I went to the police station to look at his belongings.

His limbs were mutilated.

And his skull was plastered.

Seiji was tortured to death.

Ishikawa,

you said someone saw seiji in Osaka?

Well, that's what the one of young ones said...

I must speak to him.

...he died last year. ...Ishikawa...

Is there something you're not telling me?

I don't know anything.

Couldn't it have be an accident?

You think someone can "accidentally" be ripped apart like that?

Brother...

There won't be a funeral until his death is avenged.

Could you help look for the suspects, too?

Yeah, sure.

I'm against splitting up the territory.

Nakazato is a scary man. You know this better than anyone.

...move! ...Sister! Are you okay?

Jeez...

Oh, jeez.

Ishikawa, was it you who killed seiji?

Be honest with me!

Chief...

Let's get rid of nakazato, too.

Otherwise, you two will end up killing each other!

Ishikawa...

I don't care how many petty criminals like seiji you kill,

but don't do anything to my brothers!

...hey, water! ...Yes.

I won't let you get away with it. Understand, eh?

"Ice"

our brother...

Was killed by Ishikawa. There's no question about it.

We were in hell when you weren't here, and...

Boss...

Let's kill Ishikawa.

We can't beat them.

They have 200 men. We have 30.

But...

I can't just sit here and do nothing, knowing that he killed my brother.

And we can't earn at this rate either.

We have no choice but to trust our brother.

Just wait a little longer.

I learned to do that in prison.

Welcome back!

Good to see you back. Ryo has a guest for you.

Boss, this is Hiroshi kategaru.

We've known each other since elementary school in kumejima.

He said he came here to become a man.

What were you doing back on the island?

Bakery factory.

He was always the best street fighter.

If I told him to climb a tree, he was the best at that, too.

...he also has a drivers' license. ...It got suspended.

Any family?

You are from kumejima, too, eh?

That makes four of us from the islands: Boss, me, jiro and you.

Hey!

When you said you were from an island, you meant the Philippines, right?

...no! I meant kumejima! ...Oh! Ya, right...

Damn it, you idiot!

Thank you!

...hey. ...Oh, jeez.

Hiroshi!

Work hard, start a family.

Apparently, jiro's wife earns $30.

Listen, $30 a night!

...Hiroshi! ...Kill him! Kill him!

Stop!

Cut it out, guys!

She's nobuko. She works at the same shop I do.

Hiroshi hasegawa.

My buddy. Cute, isn't he?

...use the bed. ...Hey!

C'mon let's go. My house isn't far away.

Hey...

Weren't you actually after someone like sumiko?

Hey, wait. Pay me up front.

I mean money.

You take money?

What do you think?

Were you hoping to get lucky?

This isn't the island, you know.

Here.

You're hopeless.

Sorry, you have to go.

I don't wanna be cheap.

Get out.

Go.

Go!

Wow, are you ok? Should I call the doctor?

I just need a little rub.

To the right, yeah...

Ouch...

What is this?

Hiroshi, I heard that you slept with a girl yesterday.

...you're pretty sneaky, aren't ya? ...Nice. Who is she?

Hey!

...what do you think you are doing?! ...Cut the crap.

That's our question.

...can't you see? We have business here! ...Shut it!

Your territories are on that side of the street!

...we recently got 2 contracts on this side... that's not our problem.

You know what would happen to you if the chief finds this out?

I'ii risk it! I'm not as patient as my brother!

Satoru, fuck this. Run the car.

Yes!

Brother...

Shut up!

They monkey around with us if we look scared.

If we act with confidence, they really aren't worth sweating over.

Gushikawa, does my husband know that you are doing business up there?

No...

Be careful, there's no way kunigami will keep quiet about this if he knew.

They asked for it.

Our man is supposed to be controlling the area anyways.

That's right! It's obvious.

...exactly! ...Yeah!

Gushikawa!