Japanese Godfather: Ambition

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Audience Score
100
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
NR 2 hr 21 minCrime, DramaJapanese Godfather Trilogy PosterPart of Japanese Godfather Trilogy
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
StarringShin SaburiToshirō MifuneHiroki Matsukata
DirectorSadao Nakajima

Movie Details

Original Language:Japanese
Production Companies:Toei Company

Japanese Godfather Trilogy

Nihon No Don (日本の首領, approximately translating as The Japanese Godfather or The Japanese Don) is a Japanese trilogy of organized crime films released from 1977 to 1978. Very loosely based on the real-life exploits of Japan's biggest yakuza gangs, the series was adapted from a novel by journalist Kazuo Kasahara and was produced by Toei, who earlier rewrote the rules of the yakuza genre with Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity.