DVD Year 1968 Studio Music Video Distributors Genre Foreign MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 101 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis In 1969 future sexploitation specialist Yasuharu Hasebe Stray Cat Rock Sex Hunter teamed up with the inimitable Jo Shishido Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill for a follow up to their yakuza hit Massacre Gun. A tale of gang warfare that features a raft of the period's most iconic stars, Akira Kobayashi Battles Without Honor and Humanity, The Flowers and the Angry Waves is a yakuza lieutenant who emerges from jail to find his gang dispersed and his aging boss in his sickbed. Shishido is the rival waiting to kill him and a young Meiko Kaji Lady Snowblood is the girl caught in the crossfire. Gritty and cynical, Retaliation is a hardboiled precursor to Kinji Fukasaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s. Director Yasuharu Hasebe Cast Yasuharu Hasebe; Akira Kobayashi; Jo Shishido; Hideaki Nitani; Meiko Kaji