Number of Movies: 2
Overview
Film series starring Sonny Chiba as Goro Saionji, a drifter/thrill-seeker/detective.
Goro Saionji
Tetsu
Misako Kayama
Chikako Ueda
Fumie
Seitaro Ueda
Gen of Southpow
Fumio Kayama
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June 22, 1961
Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in a small seaside town and the film favours detective and watadori film influences over westerns. Like its predecessor, the film runs barely over one hour and never drags. It’s a little less goofy, but doesn’t have as beautiful landscapes the first movie had. Not an especially good film, but for fans of Fukasaku and Chiba it’s an entertaining if flawed 60 minutes.
June 9, 1961
The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.
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