Nippon Daikyokaku

[Machine Translation] [The Shinjuku Showakan Selection] Toei Video presents the second installment of its legendary movie theater series, featuring the sacred place of Toei Yakuza movies (Shinjuku Showakan)! The second installment of the legendary movie theater series presented by Toei Video is a selection of 10 films under the supervision of Kosuke Wakagi, a former staff member of the Shinjuku Showakan and now a film writer! Continuous release! --This is a chivalrous epic directed by Masahiro Makino and starring Koji Tsuruta, depicting the tumultuous life of the real-life Isokichi Yoshida, who was said to be the best chivalrous man in Kitakyushu! The setting is Kitakyushu in the lawless Meiji era. Set in Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu, which was beginning to develop as a new industrial zone, the film depicts the fateful confrontation between the Iwaman family, the local gangsters, and the middlemen, and the young Yoshida Isokichi, who risked his life to win peace for his hometown. Koji Tsuruta gives a convincing performance as the main character, Isokichi, and Junko Fuji gives a fine performance as Oryu, an iron-fisted geisha who adores Isokichi. This is the first soft release of the film.

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