Dissolution Rites (1967)
1h 32m
Running Time
March 31, 1967Release Date
Dissolution Rites (1967)
1h 32m
Running Time
March 31, 1967Release Date
Plot.
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
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Cast & Crew.
Koji Tsuruta
Actor
Tetsurō Tamba
Actor
Junko Miyazono
Actress
Misako Watanabe
Mie
Fumio Watanabe
Actor
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Asao Uchida
Kawashima
Isao Matsumoto
Writer
Eimei Yamamoto
Writer
Isao Tomita
Composer
Nobuo Kaneko
Itagaki
Ichirō Hoshijima
Cinematographer
Takashi Hio
Aida
Gōzō Sōma
Gurentai
Nobuo Yana
Yasuhara
Kyōsuke Machida
Kubo
Harumi Sone
Nishimura
Yoshiro Ichikawa
Takeshi
Akiyoshi Kasuga
Koyama
Osamu Tanaka
Editor
Shuichiro Nakamura
Art Direction
Shigeru Umetani
Lighting Technician
Yozo Uchida
Sound Recordist
Hideo Murota
Hōsei Komatsu
Yasuhiro Komiya
Minoru Uezu
Masakazu Kuwayama
Ryō Suga
Shunji Kasuga
Toru Ibuki
Keiichi Kitagawa
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Wiki.
Ceremony of Disbanding (解散式, Kaisanshiki), also known as Dissolution Ceremony and The Breakup, is a 1967 ninkyo eiga film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Koji Tsuruta. It was produced by Toei Studios. Fukasaku later directed Koji Tsuruta in a similarly titled film, Bakuto kaisanshiki (Gambler's Farewell), in 1968, but the two films are unrelated.