Deadly Outlaw: Rekka is a 2002 Japanese yakuza film

Yakuza film

is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, also referred to as the Japanese Mafia.-Ninkyo eiga:...

 directed by Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike

is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

 starring Riki Takeuchi

Riki Takeuchi

is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike...

 and Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba

, also known as Sonny Chiba, is a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director and martial artist.Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.- Early life :Born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka,...

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Plot

After Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi)'s yakuza

Yakuza

, also known as , are members of traditional organized crime syndicates in Japan. The Japanese police, and media by request of the police, call them bōryokudan , literally "violence group", while the yakuza call themselves "ninkyō dantai" , "chivalrous organizations". The yakuza are notoriously...

 leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend (Kenichi Endo) go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.

Cast

• Riki Takeuchi
  Riki Takeuchi
  is a Japanese actor best known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies.Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike...
  
   as Kunisada
• Ryôsuke Miki
• Kenichi Endo
• Mika Katsumura
• Sonny Chiba
  Sonny Chiba
  , also known as Sonny Chiba, is a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director and martial artist.Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.- Early life :Born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka,...
  
  
• Yuya Uchida
  Yuya Uchida
  is a Japanese actor and singer, who is regarded as a major figure in Japanese popular music.He began his music career in 1957, and became one of Japan's pivotal rock and roll figures. He became good friends with John Lennon after touring with The Beatles in 1966...
  
  
• Tetsuro Tamba
  Tetsuro Tamba
  was a Japanese actor.-Biography:Tamba is perhaps best known by Western audiences for his role as Tiger Tanaka in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice . By then, he had among other roles appeared in two films by director Masaki Kobayashi: Harakiri and Kwaidan...
  
  
• Renji Ishibashi
• Lilyhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0510486/ as Kunisada's Godmother
• Miho Nomoto
• Joe Yamanaka
  Joe Yamanaka
  , better known as Joe Yamanaka, was a half Japanese and half African American singer, known for both his work with Flower Travellin' Band and as a solo musician. He was also an actor and appeared in many movies, such as Takashi Miike's Deadly Outlaw: Rekka and the 1989 version of Zatoichi...
  
  
• Rikiya Yasuoka

Other credits

• Produced by
  • Akira Ando - planner
  • Mitsuru Kurosawa - executive producer: Toei Video
  • Fujio Matsushima - associate planner
  • Tsuneo Seto - producer
  • Shigenori Takechi - associate planner
• Sound Department: Fusao Yuwaki - sound
• Supervisor: Noboru Ando