09 Apr 1961
Big Shots Die at Dawn
Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.
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小堀阿吉雄 
若山セツ子 Michiko Toyoshima 
広瀬嘉子 広沢虎造 
河津清三郎 
田中春男 
阿部九洲男 森健二 
小川虎之助 
四代目 澤村國太郎 
田崎潤
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