The Blood of Wolves
Film poster
Japanese name
Kanji	孤狼の血
Directed by	Kazuya Shiraishi
Screenplay by	Jun'ya Ikegami
Based on	Korō no Chi by Yūko Yuzuki
Produced by	Kazuto Amano
Starring	Kōji Yakusho Tori Matsuzaka Yōko Maki
Narrated by	Issei Futamata
Edited by	Hitomi Katō
Music by	Gorō Yasukawa
Distributed by	Toei
Release date	May 12, 2018 (2018-05-12)
Running time	126 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$5,908,700[1]

The Blood of Wolves (Japanese: 孤狼の血, Hepburn: Korō no Chi) is a 2018 Japanese crime yakuza film directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, starring Koji Yakusho and Tori Matsuzaka.^[2][3] The 2021 film Last of The Wolves was released as a sequel to this film.

Premise

1988, Hiroshima, Japan. Shūichi Hioka (Tori Matsuzaka) gets assigned to the second investigative unit under Shōgo Ōgami (Kōji Yakusho), 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

• Kōji Yakusho as Shōgo Ōgami
• Tori Matsuzaka as Shūichi Hioka
• Kenichi Yajima
• Tomorowo Taguchi

Hiroshima Prefectural Police

• Kenichi Takitō as Daisuke Saga

Odani-gumi

• Yōsuke Eguchi as Moritaka Ichinose
• Goro Ibuki as Kenji Odani
• Tomoya Nakamura as Kyōji
• Taketo Tanaka as Takashi

Irako-kai

• Renji Ishibashi as Shōhei Irako

Kakomura-gumi

• Kyūsaku Shimada as Kakomura
• Yutaka Takenouchi as Nozaki
• Takuma Oto'o as Yoshida
• Katsuya as "Sekitori"

Takii-gumi

• Pierre Taki as Ginji Takii

Aki Shimbun

• Nakamura Shidō II as Takafumi Kōsaka

Others

• Yōko Maki as Rikako Takagi
• Junko Abe as Momoko Okada
• Taro Suruga as Jirō Uesawa
• Megumi as Junko Uesawa
• Joey Iwanaga as Daiki Zenda

Accolades

Sequel

• Last of the Wolves (2021)

See also

• Cops vs. Thugs (1975 film)

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• The Blood of Wolves at IMDb