Dissolution Rites
Dissolution Rites
A Crime film released in 1967, Dissolution Rites runs 1h 32m and comes from Japan. Soap2Day lists it with Kinji Fukasaku directing and Koji Tsuruta and Tetsuro Tamba in the cast. It holds 7/10 from 2 votes. 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.
- Genre: Crime
- Country: Japan
- Director: Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast: Koji Tsuruta, Tetsuro Tamba, Junko Miyazono, Fumio Watanabe, Misako Watanabe, Hōsei Komatsu, Asao Uchida, Yasuhiro Komiya, Nobuo Kaneko, Minoru Uezu, Takashi Hio, Gōzō Sōma
