The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats (1972)

10.0/10 • 88 min • Action Comedy Crime

Overview

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.

Cast

Bunta Sugawara

Tsunehiko Watase

Masaru Shiga

Naoya Makoto

Tamio Kawachi

Taiji Tonoyama

Sanae Kitabayashi

Kantarō Suga

Akira Shioji

Tatsuo Endō

Yuriko Mishima

Bin Amatsu

Kyōsuke Machida

Ryō Nishida

Minken Karasawa

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