Brothers Serving Time

Directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

With Ken Takakura, Bunta Sugawara, Kyōsuke Machida, Tomisaburō Wakayama and Ryōji Hayama

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.