- Country: Japan
- Genres: Action, Crime
- Release: 1975-10-14
- Director: Noboru Tanaka
- Writers: Isao Matsumoto , Hideaki Yamamoto
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Ken Takakura , Bunta Sugawara , Tetsurō Tamba , Kōji Wada , Yôko Maki , Isao Natsuyagi , Renji Ishibashi , Kenji Imai , Hideji Ôtaki , Rokkō Toura
- Runtime: 98 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Kobe International Gang , Kobe Kokusai Gang , Kobe kokuasi gyangu , Kobe Kokusai Gang , 神戸国際ギャング (Japan) , International Gangs of Kobe
- Plot: I was excited to see a Japanese crime flick starring Bunta Sugawara and Takakura Ken - the best known Japanese actor outside his own country, all over the world, with of course Toshiro Mifune. Both play here some low rate hoods who try to survive after the war by selling stolen goods - sugar - to some Chinese organization in Kowloon. Gangs too, who try to set them up, cheat our leads. That's an action and crime film, very far from Kinji Fukasaku's stuff, but still agreeable to watch for Japanese, and particularly Yakuza movies buffs like me. This story emphasizes much on the social misery that spreads all over Japan after the war. Ghettos and homeless people living among the garbage, beggars and crooks. As we see in so many other Japanese films, actors are sometimes over-acting but that's the way it is. I also assure you that movie is not a comedy but a rough and somehow brutal Yakuza tale, as I expected, although not being the best I have ever seen. It is also question here of the Korean mafia. One amusing sequence where Bunta Sugarawa has sex with his girl friend whilst he reads the newspaper.
- IMDB:tt1622996
Kobe Kokusai Gang Cast · · · ALL
Noboru Tanaka
Director
Ken Takakura
Masato Dan
Bunta Sugawara
Kenzo Otaki
Tetsurō Tamba
Rinsei
Kōji Wada
Tamotsu Maehara
Hiroko Maki
Maki Tajima
Isao Natsuyagi
Yutaka Nakao
Kenji Imai
Tetsufumi
Hideji Ôtaki
Tokugen
Rokkō Toura
Detective Nishimura
Toshitaka Itō
Goro Tanigawa
Kunie Tanaka
Teruo Maruyama
Guts Ishimatsu
Nougaki
Moeko Ezawa
Satoko
Aoi Nakajima
Hatsue
Pinko Izumi
Happy
Kin Sugai
Chiyo
Natsuko Yashiro
Pak's Whore
Ryō Nishida
White Soldier
Ryôta Minowada
Shunji Sasaki