Gangster Cop

1970 [JAPANESE]

Action / Crime / Drama

IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 331 331

Plot summary

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.

Director

Yukio Noda Photo
Yukio Noda

Top cast

Machiko Yashiro Photo
Machiko Yashiro as Maki Noriko
Kôji Takishima Photo
Kôji Takishima
Kôsaku Okano Photo
Kôsaku Okano
Ken Kazama Photo
Ken Kazama as Kazamaki
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814.21 MB
1280*544
Japanese 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.48 GB
1920*816
Japanese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Serpent-5

a film Sonny Chiba forgot he starred in.

I met Sonny Chiba and talked about this film, and he didn't know what film I was talking about. This film (barely released in America) is another quick entry on the Chiba action craze that was hot in the 70's. The problem is that the American distributor forgot to dub (in English) 20% of the film ! The film stars the usual stock actors that stars in Chiba films like Yusef Osman, Jiro Chiba, and guest star Giant Baba (famous Japanese wrestler). Lots of good action, excellent soundtrack, and funny gags.
Reviewed by random_avenger 8 / 10

Gangster Cop

Sonny Chiba's long filmography includes popular fighting movies like the Street Fighter series (1974) and Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), but some lesser known titles like the two Yakuza deka action-comedies from 1970 are entertaining too. I saw the sequel Yakuza deka: Marifana mitsubai soshiki first, but in the end the order doesn't really matter; the two movies are not connected in terms of plot, only subject matter.Just like the sequel, Yakuza deka recounts an adventure of a tough undercover cop named Hayata Shiro (Chiba) who is assigned to infiltrate and destroy a yakuza clan Yashira. After seemingly resigning from the police force, he is hired by his mobster pal Asai (Ryohei Uchida) and given the job to eliminate a rival yakuza boss Okura (Rin'ichi Yamamoto), but both the Okura and the Yashira clans are playing dirty in the toughening game of bloody rivalries.The movie is so similar to the sequel I reviewed earlier that I'm going to have to recycle most of what I wrote before: the music and fashion are groovy, the fighting and action entertaining and the comedy amusing enough. The world of psychedelic nightclubs and sex-toy selling transvestites just cannot be not fun, especially when spiced up with frequent gunplay and fistfights featuring loud POW! sound effects every time somebody gets punched (that is, all the time). The tilted camera angles help to make the intruding sequences look very nice and the big finale of Chiba fleeing dynamite-throwing, helicopter-flying baddies through a sand pit is well-made action entertainment, even if not quite as great as the climax of the sequel. The freeze frame-heavy opening credits set the mood for the movie awesomely too.It is difficult to think of anything significant to criticize about Yakuza deka; everything silly about it just suits the mood seamlessly. Things like an overly straightforward script, abrupt jumping into and out of action scenes or Hayata's slightly simplistic relationship with a drug addict gun moll could come across as poor storytelling in a serious movie, but not here: Yakuza deka is all about fast-paced entertainment not pretending to be anything more. Some hate it, many love it – I count myself in the latter camp.
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