Charge Hooligans of Hakata AKA Totsugeki Hakata Gurentai (1978) DVD-R

Starring: Shigeru Izumiya, Masayoshi Shimizu, Tomio Yatani, Ryo Higuchi
Directed by: Gakuryû Ishii
Print: Color / Black & White
Runtime: 70 minutes
Genre: Action
Language: Japanese, English subtitles

*Charge Hooligans of Hakata* (*Totsugeki! Hakata Gurentai*; 1978) is a Japanese punk-style youth gang film from director Gakuryû Ishii. The story follows a rebellious Hakata street gang whose escalating clashes with the yakuza spiral into chaos. Raw, fast-paced, and aggressively stylized, the film stands as an early showcase of Ishii’s underground filmmaking energy and Japan’s emerging punk cinema movement.