Wolves of the City: Checkmate

The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…

A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.

Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.

The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.

The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".

Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.

This is the thirteenth film in the series.

This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…

Pinku from 1971.

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…

This is the Sixteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…

Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.