Yakuza Hooligans

A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.

Cast

Hiroki Matsukata

as Jiro Taniguchi

Hideo Takamatsu

as Kurokawa

Yuriko Mishima

as Harumi

Kazuko Inano

as Nobuko

Ken Sanders

as Ken

Ichiro Araki

Masaomi Kondo

Yukiko Kuwahara

as Tokiko

Junko Miyazono

as Yumi

Yūji Nanto

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