Dissolution Rites (1967)
1h 32m
Running Time
April 1, 1967
Release Date
Dissolution Rites (1967)
1h 32m
Running Time
April 1, 1967
Release Date
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Plot.
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
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Cast & Crew.

Koji Tsuruta
Sawaki

Tetsuro Tamba
Sakai

Junko Miyazono
Sachiko

Fumio Watanabe
Shimamura

Misako Watanabe
Mie

Hōsei Komatsu

Asao Uchida
Kawashima

Yasuhiro Komiya

Nobuo Kaneko
Itagaki

Minoru Uezu

Takashi Hio
Aida

Gōzō Sōma
Gurentai

Nobuo Yana
Yasuhara

Kyōsuke Machida
Kubo

Harumi Sone
Nishimura

Yoshiro Ichikawa
Takeshi

Akiyoshi Kasuga
Koyama

Isao Tomita
Original Music Composer

Ichirō Hoshijima
Director of Photography

Shigeru Umetani
Lighting Technician

Shuichiro Nakamura
Art Direction

Yozo Uchida
Sound Recordist

Osamu Tanaka
Editor

Kinji Fukasaku
Director / Screenplay

Isao Matsumoto
Screenplay

Eimei Yamamoto
Screenplay

Yuko Minakaze

Katsuo Tagawa

Kosaku Okano

Shunji Kasuga

Ryō Suga

Toru Ibuki

Keiichi Kitagawa

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Shoichi Kuwayama

Jiro Miyaguchi

Masakazu Kuwayama

Hideo Murota
Media.

Details.
Release Date
April 1, 1967
Original Name
解散式
Status
Released
Running Time
1h 32m
Genres
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Wiki.
Ceremony of Disbanding (解散式, Kaisanshiki), also known as Dissolution Ceremony and The Breakup, is a 1967 ninkyo eiga film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Koji Tsuruta. It was produced by Toei Studios. Fukasaku later directed Koji Tsuruta in a similarly titled film, Bakuto kaisanshiki (Gambler's Farewell), in 1968, but the two films are unrelated.
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