Shinjuku Outlaw (1994) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1994 · 96 mins · Japanese

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Directed by

Takashi Miike

Starring

Hiroyuki Watanabe, Hakuryu, Tatsuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Nakajo, Yumi Iori, Ruby Moreno

After a disastrous clash in Hiroshima leaves him comatose, Shoichi Yomi awakens a decade later and travels to Shinjuku to aid his sworn brother, Eto. His old rival Tagami, allied with the powerful Okumura clan and a Taiwanese gang, schemes to profit from the looming gang war. Yomi sides with the Okumura gang to protect Eto’s misused funds, pitting two outlaws against the city’s tangled criminal factions.