Outlaw: Kill!

Outlaw: Kill! (1969) is the sixth installment of the Outlaw Gangster VIP series and director Keichi Ozawa's fourth. The patterns have been well established at this point. Ozawa decides to open with artful color filter stills rather than an action scene this time around. And this time Goror (Tetsya Watari) wanders into Kawasaki, a factory town between Tokyo and Yokohoma, and finds himself caught up in a turf war between warring clans. He is taken in by an old friend. It turns out that an elevator operator, Yumi (Chieko Matsubara) that he helped out of a jam with chinpira at a department store is the sister of said friend's wife. Another surprise comes during the final fight sequence that takes place at a club featuring a psychedelic garage band playing on a glass floor that cuts back and forth between the club and murderous action going on downstairs. (This was stolen from a film by the stylistic master of 60s "B" movies Seijin Suzuki) The film seems stretch the limits for sex and violence as films continue to lose out to TV in the late 60s and will fare worse in the 70s.