Graveyard of Honor
1975 · Movie · 94 min · ★ 6.7 · 82% critics
In postwar Japan, a volatile small-time criminal rises within the yakuza but keeps sabotaging himself with reckless violence and addiction. Inspired by a real story, this is a grim, fast-moving look at a man spiraling through the underworld with almost no sense of restraint.
Also known as Graveyard of Honour and Humanity
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Details
- Original title
- 仁義の墓場
- Years
- 1975
- Release date
- 1975-02-15
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Critic score
- 82/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.7/10 (55 votes)
About
If you like harsh, grim yakuza stories like Battles Without Honor and Humanity or Hiroshima Death Match, this offers a raw, relentless ride; Not for you if you want sympathetic characters or an uplifting crime movie.
Pros: gripping downward spiral; brutal, fast pace; stark crime portrait | Cons: very bleak tone; hard to like lead; disturbing sexual violence
Themes
- prison
- japan
- based on novel or book
- self-destruction
- gangster
- yakuza
- based on true story
- honor
- organized crime
- graveyard
- 1940s
Cast & crew
Tetsuya Watari
as Rikio Ishikawa
Tatsuo Umemiya
as Kozaburo Imai
Yumi Takigawa
as Chieko Ishikawa
Eiji Gō
as Makoto Sugiura
Noboru Andō
as Ryunosuke Nozu
Reiko Ike
as Teruko Imai
Kunie Tanaka
as Katsuji Ozaki
Hajime Hana
as Shuzo Kawada
Mikio Narita
as Noboru Kajiki
Shingo Yamashiro
as Hiroshi Tamura
Directed by Kinji Fukasaku