Violent Streets

Director: Hideo Gosha, Hideo Gosha, Hideo Gosha, Hideo Gosha

1974 / 96min / DCP

Sometimes regarded as not only among Gosha’s finest films but among the finest yakuza films ever made, Violent Streets is a brutal, gripping, kinetic action yarn in which a retired Tokyo boss (Noburo Ando) is forced to go back into battle after a Kansai syndicate starts making moves on his home turf. From a frantic brawl staged in a chicken coop to a laidback gunman who joins a fatal firefight without ever taking off his headphones, classic scenes and characters follow fast on one another’s heels in this pulpy, pungent thriller.