Tsunehiko Watase
Birthday: 1944-07-28
Place of Birth: Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
Biography: Tsunehiko Watase (July 28, 1944 – March 14, 2017) was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Rintaro Kano in Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari ("Homicide Team 9"). He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for The Incident and at the 3rd Hochi Film Award for The Incident, Kōtei no inai hachigatsu and The Fall of Ako Castle.
Movies
Killer's Hit List
A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-...
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre....
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi...
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Student Yakuza
A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and ...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Pimp Heaven
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be...
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Abandoned
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecke...
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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza fami...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides...
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Jesus is My Boss
A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real...
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Steel & Lead
A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his m...
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Fossilized Wilderness
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Divisio...
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a co...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsuk...
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Samurai Rebellion
Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called "Coward...
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Nile
A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows...
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Fushin no Toki
Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake....
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to pri...
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The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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Death Shadows
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless...
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One Bowl of Kakesoba
Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand...
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Antarctica
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...
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August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese gove...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend c...
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Time and Tide
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat....
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Father of the Kamikaze
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali...
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The Decisive Power of Aikido
It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido...
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The Silk Road
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi X...
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes unde...
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G.I. Samurai
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their...
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Bodyguard Kiba 2
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent ac...
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Sympathy for the Underdog
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol...
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Jeans Blues: No Future
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro K...
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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expe...
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The Horrible Obsessions
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting h...
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Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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Gate of Youth 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
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Lovers Lost
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tra...
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Gate of Flesh
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of th...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san mee...
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Writhing Tongue
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible...
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The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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Sanpei the Fisher Boy
Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love fish...
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate....
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:...
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Wolves on Motorcycles
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground....
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel....
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...
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Andromedia
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form ...
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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a...
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Heaven and Earth
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. T...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That make...
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Call from Darkness
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case i...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sha...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested...
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The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and...
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Virus
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a p...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit...
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...
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Violent Fraternity
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's mem...
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst...
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Third Generation Boss
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag...
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Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyal...
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Gate of Youth
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner....
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Curtain Call
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised M...
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Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money....
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Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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Woman Mobsters
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, ...
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The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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Three Pretty Devils
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into de...
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a ...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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The Karate Man and the Spy
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. T...
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Beyond the Shining Sea
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a ...
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The Three Undelivered Letters
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay...
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gan...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large...
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1750 Days of Turbulence
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years....
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The Street of Desire
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death....
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The Wicked
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he...
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Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objec...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administra...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth...
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Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda ...
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Sensei
In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays...
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Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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Troops of Darkness
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later ...
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Emperor of Upheaval
The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate l...
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinos...
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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's....
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Haru Urara
Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse ...
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who di...
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Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister....
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Let's Get Happy
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day ...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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The Politicians
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal m...
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Taxi Driver’s Mystery Diary SP22
Yoake Sudeo, a former elite detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, now works as a taxi driver...
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Cabaret
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thrill...
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