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Blackmail Is My Life
JAPAN · 1968

Blackmail Is My Life

Kinji Fukasaku
blackmail organized crime social climbing gangster underworld moral corruption
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Synopsis

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.

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