Description:

"Shima wa moratta"

In 1969, future sexploitation specialist Yasuharu Hasebe (Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter) teamed up with the inimitable Jô Shishido (Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill) for a follow up to their yakuza hit The Slaughter Gun (Massacre Gun).
A tale of gang warfare that features a raft of the period s most iconic stars, Akira Kobayashi (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Flowers and the Angry Waves) is a yakuza lieutenant who emerges from jail to find his gang dispersed and his aging boss in his sickbed. Shishido is the rival waiting to kill him and a young Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood) is the girl caught in the crossfire. Gritty and cynical, Retaliation is a hardboiled precursor to Kinji Fukasaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.

Director: Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast: Akira Kobayashi, Jô Shishido, Hideaki Nitani

-Remastered Print-

-1968-

-Color Anamorphic Widescreen 94 Mins-

-Japanese with Optional English Subtitles-