is a 1971 Japanese crime film directed by Hideo Gosha.Stuart Galbraith IV -The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography 1461673747 2008 Shussho iwai (“Celebration of a Prisoners Release”) [The Wolves] Producers, Sanezumi Fujimoto, Eiji Shiino, ... Hideo Gosha; Screenplay, Kei Tasaka and Hideo Gosha;
Release The film was released theatrically in Japan on 30 October 1971 by Toho. The film was released by Toho International in the United States with English subtitles on 7 June 1972.
Reception Vincent Canby of the New York Times reviewed the film in 1982, describing it as "a rather enjoyable if often mysterious and esoteric entertainment for someone coming upon the genre for the first time." Canby concluded that the film was "resolutely sentimental and picturesque" and "a most peculiar mixture of stylized prettiness and blood and gore, which is, I suspect, the film's main purpose" and "makes a feeble stab at social criticism" and that a viewer may "not understand everything that's going on in The Wolves, but I doubt that you'll be bored." Time Out declared that, while "Hideo Gosha is virtually unknown in the West", The Wolves is "a yakuza movie in a class of its own" and "a stunningly realised thriller", concluding that "Gosha's muscular, Expressionist colour imagery blazes through the screen."
Cast Tatsuya Nakadai Noboru Ando Toshio Kurosawa as Tsutomu Onodera
See also List of Japanese films of 1971
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