Yokohama ankokugai mashingan no ryu (1976)

Yokohama ankokugai mashingan no ryu: Directed by Akihisa Okamoto. With Bunta Sugawara, Shin’ichi Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Kunie Tanaka. Bunta Sugawara and his gangster mom robs a bagful of mafia money. They get in trouble when the mafia sends their finest hit men after them.

“Basically this is a solid but not stellar Yakuza movie, with some fun twists that make it memorable.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBunta is his usual excellent self as our u0026quot;hero,u0026quot; a machine-gun wielding gangster who pals around with bikers and commits robberies with his mother (!?). Eventually, the guys he ripped off come looking for him and heu0026#39;s forced to flee with his incredibly hot girlfriend, who has amazing outfits and no personality.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe things that make this one stand out are a bizarre and possibly incestuous mother fixation, Bunta and his girlfriendu0026#39;s fabulous 20u0026#39;s era gangster and moll outfits, some fun violent set-pieces, and an assassination in a prison bath that was different than anything Iu0026#39;d seen before.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis one gets a marginal recommendation, definite thumbs up if youu0026#39;re a Yakuza flick fan, though itu0026#39;s not on the level of Fukasakuu0026#39;s better work.”