Returning from a ten-year prison sentence, gang leader Gunji (Koji Tsuruta) learns that his territory is now owned by a former enemy who only appears to be a legitimate business. Instead of staying, he and his crew head off to Okinawa.

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku, this finds a proud yakuza learning that his men are now gambling addicts working minimum wage jobs, a far cry from the lawless world he was once part of. Now, there are corporate gangs, big-time operations that have no time for rough individualists like Gunji, who, like the cowboys of the West, are doomed to not fade away but to go out of this world in a violent hail of bullets.

The Radiance Films Blu-ray release of this movie has extras including audio commentary by yakuza film expert Nathan Stuart; an interview with Fukasaku biographer Olivier Hadouchi; a visual essay on Okinawa on screen by film historian and author Aaron Gerow; a trailer; a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow and a limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Bastian Meiresonne and an archival review of the film. It’s a limited Edition of 3,000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with a removable OBI strip, leaving the packaging free of certificates and markings. You can order the film from MVD.