
08 Oct 1965

The Man's Crest: I Shall Kill
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Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

Shozo Hirono

Shoji Yamanaka

Yasuko Uehara

Katsutoshi Otomo

Tsuneo Muraoka

Hiroshi Matsunaga

Koichi Shimada

Kunimatsu Takanashi

Shozo Eda

Keisuke Nakahara

Kanichi Tokimori

Choji Otomo

Toshio Kuramitsu

Yoshio Yamamori

Rika Yamamori

Yamanaka

Mitsuo Iwashita

Bar Hostess

Ishida Eisuke

Priest

08 Oct 1965

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