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Plot

1988,

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. Shūichi Hioka (

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) gets assigned to the second investigative unit under Shōgo Ōgami (

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), a detective rumored to have mob ties, and he is put in charge of the missing person case for an employee at a yakuza-affiliated finance company. Hioka confronts ruthless gang thugs while harboring doubts about the law-breaking Ogami.

Cast

;East Kurehara Police *

as Shōgo Ōgami *

as Shūichi Hioka *

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;Hiroshima Prefectural Police *

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as Daisuke Saga ;Odani-gumi *

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as Moritaka Ichinose *

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as Kenji Odani *

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as Kyōji * Taketo Tanaka as Takashi ;Irako-kai *

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as Shōhei Irako ;Kakomura-gumi *

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as Kakomura *

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as Nozaki * Takuma Oto'o as Yoshida *

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as "Sekitori" ;Takii-gumi *

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as Ginji Takii ;Aki Shimbun *

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as Takafumi Kōsaka ;Others * Yōko Maki as Rikako Takagi *

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as Momoko Okada *

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as Jirō Uesawa * Megumi as Junko Uesawa * Joey Iwanaga as Daiki Zenda

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Sequel

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Last of the Wolves is a 2021 Japanese crime and yakuza film. It is a sequel to the 2018 film ''The Blood of Wolves''. Premise In the early 1990s, a young detective Shūichi Hioka controls the yakuza in Hiroshima, but the situation completely changes when Shigehiro ...

'' (2021)

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