PickFlick
Gambler's Farewell

Gambler's Farewell

Part of Gambler Collection

1968•1h 31m•8.0/10
DramaCrime

Ratings

🎬TMDb
8.0/10(2)

The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Toei Company

Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Koji Tsuruta

Koji Tsuruta

Toru Kuroki

Fumio Watanabe

Fumio Watanabe

Eiji Katasawa

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuji Kasai

Masayo Banri

Masayo Banri

Akiko

Seizaburō Kawazu

Seizaburō Kawazu

Masayohi Iwasaki

Harumi Sone

Harumi Sone

Isao

Rinichi Yamamoto

Rinichi Yamamoto

The One-Arm

Hideo Murota

Hideo Murota

Koike

Kōji Sekiyama

Kōji Sekiyama

Gondô

Takashi Hio

Mossou

Nobuo Yana

Nobuo Yana

Dosa

Koji Takishima

Matsumoto

Akikane Sawa

Akikane Sawa

Shimizu

Hikaka Ueda

Uno

Tadashi Suganuma

Sanada

Hiroshi Kawai

Haraguchi

Hôsei Komatsu

Kanayama

Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

Riichirô Maejima

More from Gambler Collection

Gambler

Gambler

9.0
1964
Movie

The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.

Gambler

1964
9.0
Prison Gambler

Prison Gambler

9.0
1964
Movie

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series Gambler / Bakuto directed by Shigehiro Ozawa.

Prison Gambler

1964
9.0
Gamblers and Racketeers

Gamblers and Racketeers

10.0
1964
Movie

Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can to protect and support the people. Ryutaro Kijima is senior son to Masakichi, though disowned, he keeps interest in the family from a distance. He will be there for his father and his hot tempered younger brother Katsuo, if they should need his loyal help.

Gamblers and Racketeers

1964
10.0
Seven Gamblers

Seven Gamblers

6.5
1966
Movie

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.

Seven Gamblers

1966
6.5
Three Gamblers

Three Gamblers

8.5
1967
Movie

Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.

Three Gamblers

1967
8.5
Gambler Biography

Gambler Biography

6.0
1968
Movie

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.

Gambler Biography

1968
6.0
A Wad of Notes

A Wad of Notes

7.2
1970
Movie

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back and saves the town that is becoming run-down from yakuza’s ill deeds.

A Wad of Notes

1970
7.2
Sympathy for the Underdog

Sympathy for the Underdog

7.1
1971
Movie

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Sympathy for the Underdog

1971
7.1
The Gambler's Counterattack

The Gambler's Counterattack

8.5
1971
Movie

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.

The Gambler's Counterattack

1971
8.5

Recommended

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

7.3
1973
Movie

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.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

1973
7.3
Graveyard of Honor

Graveyard of Honor

6.3
2002
Movie

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

Graveyard of Honor

2002
6.3
Female Yakuza Tale

Female Yakuza Tale

6.2
1973
Movie

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

Female Yakuza Tale

1973
6.2
A Family

A Family

7.3
2021
Movie

Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.

A Family

2021
7.3
Rainy Dog

Rainy Dog

6.8
1997
Movie

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.

Rainy Dog

1997
6.8
The Outsider

The Outsider

6.2
2018
Movie

A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

The Outsider

2018
6.2
Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

7.4
1973
Movie

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973
7.4
The Yakuza

The Yakuza

7.1
1974
Movie

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.

The Yakuza

1974
7.1
Agitator

Agitator

6.5
2001
Movie

When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.

Agitator

2001
6.5
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

6.8
2013
Movie

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.

Siberian Education

2013
6.8
Altered Carbon: Resleeved

Altered Carbon: Resleeved

6.6
2020
Movie

On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.

Altered Carbon: Resleeved

2020
6.6
Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter

7.1
1966
Movie

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

Tokyo Drifter

1966
7.1

Similar Movies

No Image

The Outer Way

6.7
1998
Movie

The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.

The Outer Way

1998
6.7
Kunisada Chuji

Kunisada Chuji

5.6
1958
Movie

Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mercy of corrupt officials. Intent on fulfilling a dying wish from one of his henchmen, Asataro, to find a decent home for his young nephew, Chuji descends from his hide-out in the mountain, and heads to the city in spite of numerous dangers that await him there.

Kunisada Chuji

1958
5.6
CONFLICT: Outbreak

CONFLICT: Outbreak

7.0
2016
Movie

The Hyodo-gumi boss—part of Tendokai, Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate—has been brutally murdered. Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa), the head of the Washio-gumi and Tendokai’s wakagashira (underboss), is convinced that Yoshinari Myojin (Sho Aikawa), a former Tendokai wakagashira-hosa now running Tokyo’s underworld of thugs and mafia, is behind the killing. Around the same time, Tendokai's 5th-generation chairman Katsushige (Hakuryu) orders Washio to secure a woman named Nagi Toyama (Akane Hotta). Washio sets out with his men, Okita (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Date (Hideo Nakano), but they’re ambushed by a group of heavily armed youths. Barely escaping, they manage to bring Nagi to their hideout—only to discover she’s a key player in a power struggle over the Tokyo Casino Project. And so begins the greatest conflict yet, entangling yakuza, mafia, street gangs, the police, and even the state itself—

CONFLICT: Outbreak

2016
7.0
The Clan's Heir is a Trans Woman

The Clan's Heir is a Trans Woman

4.0
2013
Movie

The head of the Tatsumi family falls ill and dies after requesting that his son, who disappeared 15 years ago, takes over. The Tatsumi family, including the young head Ryu, decides to search for his son's whereabouts in order to keep his will. They finally find his son and learn he is now a woman. Meanwhile, the hostile Honjoukai are plotting to steal the Tatsumi family's territory.

The Clan's Heir is a Trans Woman

2013
4.0
Wasabi

Wasabi

6.7
2001
Movie

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his girlfriend who left him shortly after marriage without a trace.

Wasabi

2001
6.7
Taxi 2

Taxi 2

6.3
2000
Movie

A cabdriver and a cop race to Paris to rescue a love interest and the Japanese minister of defense from kidnappers.

Taxi 2

2000
6.3
Dochinpira 12: Dangerous Pheromones

Dochinpira 12: Dangerous Pheromones

1995
Movie

Jin, the unstoppable gigolo, becomes infatuated with a beautiful woman named Emi he spots on the street. But not only does she reject him, he also ends up, as usual, being chased by punks from the Gokuraku gang. Later that night, Jin meets Norishiro at a bar, who happens to know Emi. She offers him a deal: if he can seduce Emi within five days, she’ll pay him 1 million yen. Jin goes to the club where Emi works, only to find out she has a boyfriend, Toshio, a civil servant who is drowning in gambling debt, owing 10 million yen to Fujita of the Gokuraku gang. Now he demands Toshio provides Emi for prostitution. At first, Jin wants nothing to do with Toshio’s mess… but something changes within him.

Dochinpira 12: Dangerous Pheromones

1995
Black Rain

Black Rain

6.6
1989
Movie

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.

Black Rain

1989
6.6
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War

The Great Okinawa Yakuza War

7.5
1976
Movie

Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.

The Great Okinawa Yakuza War

1976
7.5
Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

8.0
2003
Movie

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2003
8.0
Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

7.7
1970
Movie

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Monastery, Ryotatsu is forced to teach the boy how to cope as a blind person in old Japan. When he takes the child with him on the road to find the boy's mother, they run afoul of not only yakuza gangsters, but some corrupt army officers have been trying to sway public opinion against the Satsuma rebels by posing as members of Saigo Takamori's group. It's a bloody mistake for them to underestimate the strength of the Blind Priest, and he'll make them pay with their lives!

Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

1970
7.7
AKP: Job 27

AKP: Job 27

2014
Movie

A Yakuza hitman travels to North America for his 27th job, only to find lingering memories of lost love through a chance encounter with a beautiful prostitute.

AKP: Job 27

2014
PickFlick Assistant
Hi! I'm your PickFlick Assistant. Ask me about movies, TV shows, OTT sources, or anything about PickFlick.

Powered by CopilotKit