High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky (stylized as HiGH&LOW THE MOVIE 2 / END OF SKY) is a 2017 Japanese action film directed by Shigeaki Kubo and Tsuyoshi Nakakuki. It is the third film of the High&Low franchise, and the second film focusing on the war between yakuza organisation Kuryu Group and the SWORD gangs. Following the story of High&Low The Movie and High&Low The Red Rain, the SWORD gangs continued to fight against Kuryu Group's plan of transforming their town into a casino.

High&Low The Movie 2 / End of Sky was announced on March 18, 2017. It was also announced that the film would be released on August 19, 2017. The film's ensemble cast includes not only a large number of members of the Exile Tribe, Takanori Iwata, Akira, Sho Aoyagi, Keiji Kuroki, Takahiro, Hiroomi Tosaka and Naoto, but also actors like Kento Hayashi, Masataka Kubota, and Yuki Yamada.

The film premiered in Tokyo on August 9, 2017, with 60 cast members attending the stage greeting event. It grossed 1.34 billion yen in Japan.

Plot Though being attacked, the SWORD gangs united and defeated the army of enemies led by former Mugen Leader Kohaku at the fight at the Container street. The SWORD area gets a temporary peace.

However, Kuryu Group does not give up its plan of building a casino in the SWORD area. To fight their mutual enemies, Cobra of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad) suggests the five SWORD gangs should ally. However, as their leader Smoky's illness takes a turn for the worse, Rude Boys members who attend the summit of SWORD leaders in place of Smoky refuse the plan, saying that it's more important for them to survive. White Rascals' leader Rocky refuses to ally too, maintaining that they only want to protect women. The plan of alliance therefore fails.

Rocky refuses the plan for his own reason. The vicious man he has a feud with, Doubt's leader Ranmaru Hayashi has got out of prison, Rocky does not want the other SWORD gangs to get involved in the feud between them. Ranmaru Hayashi came prepared, with his money and the fierce Prison Gang he calls from the prison, he almost destroys White Rascals and injures Rocky. Cobra offers Rocky his help, but Rocky insists that one should rely on his own when he can.

Meanwhile, another fight against the casino plan has begun. After the death of their older brother Takeru, Masaki and Hiroto Amamiya gives the USB with proof of politicians taking bribes from the Kuryu Group to Kohaku, who deeply regrets the mistakes he has made and wants to expose the evil of the Kuryu Group. Kuryu Group becomes aware of their plans of publicising information in the USB, and they send Genji Kuki, vice leader of Kurosakikai, to kill the Kohaku and his right arm man Tsukumo.

To end the feud between themselves and the alliance of Doubt and the Prison Gang, the White Rascals head to the fatal battle. When they are almost killed by their powerful enemy, Cobra, and other SWORD members, come to their rescue with the determination to protect the SWORD area as a whole from their enemies. At the same time, Kohaku, Tsukumo and the Amamiya brothers have to fight the formidable killer Genji Kuki.

The biggest fight that will determine the future of the SWORD area begins. The SWORD gangs repulse the attacks of their enemies at walls, but their true enemy, the Kuryu Group, has not yet been defeated.

Cast

Takanori Iwata as Cobra, leader of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad), and a member of the former legendary gang Mugen. Though he always acts cool, he is a warm-hearted man deep inside. In order to protect the Sannoh shopping street he and his friend live on from those conspiring to take over the SWORD area, he proposes that the five SWORD gangs should ally. Though his plan is refused by Rocky, he tries to find out what to do next to protect the area on his own. He respects Antonio Inoki as his hero and he always wears a red scarf like Inoki. Nobuyuki Suzuki as Yamato, a childhood friend of Cobra and Noboru. He leads Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad) alongside Cobra as a second man, and he also joined Mugen together with Cobra in the past. He is strong, honest and serious, and the weight of his punch and his kick is second to none. He usually works at his family shop "Asahina Maintenance", fixing motorcycles. Angry with Kuryu Group's unreasonable redevelopment plan of the SWORD area, he agrees with Cobra, who insists on thorough fighting against the yakuza group. However, he still has some confusion about whether he should refuse the plan, as he understands the feelings of Tettsu, who is inclined to accept the casino because of the circumstances of his family. Keita Machida as Noboru, the brain of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad). He has been a top student since he was in elementary school, and therefore became the star of hope for his classmates Cobra and Yamato. During college, an incident led him off the road to a good life, and he joined Kuryu Group Iemurakai as a result. Being touched by his friends, he came to his mind and left Kuryu Group Iemurakai to reunite with his friend. He was seriously injured in the revenge of Kuryu Group, but he fully recovers now. He not only works as a chief of staff but also participates in actual battles. Kenjiro Yamashita as Dan, the Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad) member who talks in Kansai dialect. At present, he is the manager of "Dan Shoten" on the Sannoh shopping street, his parents' shop that sells everything. Worried about the reality of the Sannoh shopping street as a falling local shopping street, he is interested in the economic effects of the proposed casino of Kuryu Group, which creates a groove in his relation to Cobra. Kanta Sato as Tettsu, the special attack captain of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad). After he cuts his trademark dreadlocks and changes to a normal haircut, almost everyone says that they can't recognise him. His parents run a public bathhouse called "Yamanoyu". With his father's desire to continue the family business, he suffers from an inevitable dilemma of whether he should oppose the redevelopment plan of Kuryu Group after all. Taiki Sato as Chiharu, a member of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad). He joined Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad) after they saved him from the trouble he accidentally caused on his first day at Oya Koukou (Oya High School). He has now fully absorbed the culture of Sannoh Rengokai (Hoodlum Squad), and he always hangs out with Dan and Tettsu. Therefore, he understands Dan and Tettsu's struggle and wonders whether they should fight Kuryu Group's redevelopment plan of the town after all. Keiji Kuroki as Rocky, leader of White Rascals. He lost his mother and sister because of the domestic violence of his father when he was young, which made him a man who could not stand any man hurting woman. Although he rarely expresses his emotions, his trust towards women is definite. He also secretly supports the band activities of AIZAWA and his friends, who have left  White Rascals for their dreams. Considering his feud with DOUBT and the newly released Ranmaru Hayashi, he refuses Cobra's proposal of a SWORD gang alliance and tries to settle himself. Yuya Endo as Koo, White Rascals' second man. To fill the blank of White Rascals' strength after AIZAWAs and the others left, he adds special fighting team SMG to increase the fighting capacity of the gang. He is always calm and plays a polite "butler character" to Rocky, but when they enter into the war with Doubt, his high fighting spirit begins to reveals. Yu Inaba as Kizzy, a founding member of White Rascals. She was a scout of Doubt, but she quit the group out of disgust towards Ranmaru Hayashi and formed White Rascals with Rocky and Kaito. Though she is born as a man, she is a woman in her heart. To become the woman she is supposed to be, she quits White Rascals temporarily. Shuntarō Yanagi as Kaito, a founding member of White Rascals. When he was still in Doubt, he met Kizzy and fell in love with the man with a female soul, and they became partners. Since then, they have always been together. When Kizzy leaves White Rascals to live as a woman, he leaves the group together with Kizzy, and later returns to the group with Kizzy again. Yuki Yamada as Yoshiki Murayama, leader of Oya Koukou (Oya High School). As a student of Oya Koukou's part-time school, he survived the brutal tests of receiving 100 punches from a selection of violent people of the school and therefore became its leader according to the rules of the school. As a result, he united Oya Koukou for the first time in its history. He is small and slender, but no matter how hard he has been beaten, he has the toughness and guts to rise up again. Therefore, he used to be unable to understand other people's pain, but after a man-to-man fight with Cobra, he began to grow up and care more for people around him. In order to ally the SWORD gangs as Cobra has proposed, he goes to Daruma Ikka's power range on his own to fight Hyuga. Masataka Kubota as Smoky, leader of Rude Boys. He was abandoned on the Nameless Street when he was a child and grew up on that hell-like street with other abandoned kids. With the agility and jumping power he trained himself to have for survival, he can parkour so fast that no one can catch up with him. Meanwhile, he is a good leader. Though he seems cool at first sight, he considers every people living in the Nameless Street as his family, and he is loved by his members and orphans in the Nameless Street as an older brother to them. He is terminally ill for some reason related to his upbringing. Reo Sano as Takeshi, the second man of Rude Boys. As an orphan, he is named Takeshi after Beat Takeshi by his friends because he can fight and parkour with beats. With his flexibility and instantaneous power, he can attack others freely like he is breakdancing. He is entrusted with the job as the new leader of Rude Boys by Smoky, who is dying from his illness, and he strives to fight for the future of the family. Karen Fujii as Lala. She was abandoned on the Nameless Street the same day as Smoky, and has lived with Smoky as his sister since then. She worries about her brother Smoky's worsen health, while the fact that Eri, the child she cares for as her little sister, begins to cough like Smoky, adds to her worries. Rio Suzuki as Eri, an orphan girl living on the Nameless Street. She begins to show symptoms similar to Smoky's deadly disease, which worries Lala and others. Kento Hayashi as Norihisa Hyuga, leader of Daruma Ikka. He is the youngest of the four Hyuga brothers, who used to lead a gang called Hyuga Ikka under Kuryu Group, but were crushed by Mugen. He is alive to clear his stigma and forms Daruma Ikka with those who have the same grudge against Mugen. As a man who has loved fighting since he was born, he can not stand losing, and he always claims that all festivals in the SWORD area should be controlled by Daruma Ikka. He doesn't care about other gangs in the SWORD area, but he is challenged by Murayama to a man-to-man fight that aims to persuade him to agree with the alliance of SWORD gangs. Aoi Nakamura as Ranmaru Hayashi, leader of Doubt. Known as "Mad Dog", he is a cruel and ruthless man who has no mercy to his enemies, as well as his useless allies. Meanwhile, he believes that money can buy him everything. In the past, when he had a vicious turf war with White Rascals, he even hurt those policemen who came to stop the fight between the two gangs, and as a result, he was put into prison. After he is released from prison, he uses the money he acquires from somewhere to hire the Prison Gang he knew inside the prison to help him with the plan to take over the SWORD area.