Movie: The Machine Gun Dragon

Top 10 Billed Cast

Bunta Sugawara
菅原文太

Koichi Iwaki
岩城滉一

Kyōko Enami
江波杏子

Yutaka Nakajima
中島ゆたか

Rinichi Yamamoto
山本麟一

Jo Shiraishi
白石襄

Kenji Imai
今井健二

Renji Ishibashi
石橋蓮司

Eiji Nakano
中野英治

Tony Cetera
Tony Cetera

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    Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.

  • Release Date

    1976-02-28

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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  • Languages:

    日本語
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