Product Details

• Actors: Koji Tsuruta, Noboru Ando, Kenji Imai, Akiko Kudô, Kenjiro Morokado
• Directors: Kinji Fukasaku
• Writers: Kinji Fukasaku, Fumio Kônami, Hirô Matsuda
• Producers: Koji Shundo, Tatsuo Yoshida
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Homevision
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0006Z2NBS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #150,980 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Sympathy for the Underdog" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

From Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor & Humanity) comes this pivotal early crime drama in the celebrated career of the director who changed the face of Japanese action cinema. Stylish and hard-boiled, Sympathy for the Underdog stars Koji Tsuruta, one of Japan’s seminal figures in the Yakuza genre, as Gunji, an aging Yakuza who is released from prison after ten years. Gunji lives by a code of honor that has no place among Tokyo’s modern corporate gangs. He gets a new lease on life by reforming his former gang and taking over the whiskey trade on the island of Okinawa. But he is forced to make a final, fateful, bloody stand against the mainland gang that sent him to prison.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars very cool, November 22, 2011

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This review is from: Sympathy for the Underdog (DVD)

i really enjoyed this movie because the main character was so cool. the story was like ur typical yakuza film, the main character and his gang go n2 a new territory and try 2 take out the competition 2 b on top.fighting is gr8, especially the crazy ending which was sort of poetic in a wierd way. this movie wasnt really well known to me. i just picked it up 1 day because the title grabbed me. i watched it and wondered why this movie wasnt really broadcasted well?? its a great yakuza movie, plus you'll really root for the underdog. well worth a buy.