is recovering from a heart attack. Mantani agrees to give control of Fukui to Kawada. Kawada brings Okano and Kiki to a field where the Kanai Group members who destroyed the club have been buried up to their necks, then one of his men drives over their heads to kill them and send a message to Okano. Okano leaves in a car and Kiku walks away in the snow. Cast Sonny Chiba as Kanai Hiroki Matsukata as Kawada Noboru Yumiko Nogawa Mikio Narita as Mr. Kubo Yoko Takahashi Takeo Chii Tatsuo Endo Seizo Fukumoto Hajime Hana Goro Ibuki Nenji Kobayashi Kō Nishimura as Mr. Yasuhara Junkichi Orimoto as Yanaka Jirō Yabuki as Hanamaki Reception In his book Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, author Chris Desjardins writes that the film is "another jitsuroku yakuza blitzkrieg, this time set in a snowy Hokkaido coastal town where a murderously independent yakuza boss (Hiroki Matsukata) is bent on gaining tighter control of the territory. Sonny Chiba is slickly venal as an oily, smooth-talking gangster and Ko Nishimura convincing as always, as an elder boss obstinately sticking to his guns. The splendid Yumiko Nogawa unfortunately doesn’t have much to do. Filmed on actual Hokkaido locations, the stormy winter atmosphere is savage and palpably chilling, giving the cold-blooded brutality on display a teeth-chattering edge." In his Book Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Wrote About, Clive Davies called the film "an absolutely first-class yakuza gangster war thriller that benefits from having the story located in the coastal town of Hokuriku." References External links 1970s crime drama films 1977 drama films 1977 films Films directed by Kinji Fukasaku Films set in 1968 Films set in 1973 Films set in Fukui Prefecture Films set in Ishikawa Prefecture Films set in Shizuoka Prefecture 1970s Japanese-language films Yakuza films 1970s Japanese films