High&Low The Movie

Plot

Cast

• Takanori Iwata as Cobra, leader of Sannoh Rengokai, and a member of the former legendary gang Mugen. His full name is Hino Junpei, and as his family runs the gas station Hino Oil on Sannoh shopping street, he grew up there with Noboru and Yamato. He is a man of few words, but he cares for his friends. He is called 'Cobra' because he defeated 10 opponents with cobra clutch in a childhood fight.
• Nobuyuki Suzuki as Yamato, a childhood friend of Cobra and Noboru. He leads Sannoh Rengokai alongside Cobra as a second man, and he also joined Mugen together with Cobra in the past. He is strong, honest and serious, and the weight of his punch is second to none. He loves motorcycles and he usually works at his family shop "Asahina Maintenance", fixing motorcycles.
• Keita Machida as Noboru, a childhood friend of Cobra and Yamato. He was smart as a kid and left the town when he entered college. However, his life changed after his girlfriend Miho was raped. He went on a road of revenge and joined Kuryu Group Iemurakai, helping the group to seek control over the SWORD area.
• Kenjiro Yamashita as Dan, a member of Sannoh Rengokai and the "D" of the small sub-unit DTC. Talking in Kansai dialect, he is a mood maker of the group. At present, he is the manager of "Dan Shoten", his parents' shop that sells everything.
• Kanta Sato as Tettsu, a member of Sannoh Rengokai and the "T" of the small sub-unit DTC. He joins the group since he is a big fan of Cobra and Yamato, and he becomes a special attack captain of the group. He can be easily recognised with his dreadlocks and his baby face. In fights, he would rush into the enemies ferociously. His parents run a public bathhousecalled "Yamanoyu".
• Taiki Sato as Chiharu, a member of Sannoh Rengokai and the "C" of the small sub-unit DTC. Originally, he transferred to Oya Koukou without too much knowledge of the rules in the school,and therefore he ran into trouble on his first day. He was rescued by Yamato, which led to a fight between Sannoh Rengokai and Oya Koukou.
• Akira as Kohaku, leader of the former legendary gang Mugen, and the man who used to control the SWORD area. He disbanded Mugen after the death of his friend Tatsuya and disappeared. But after Li from Chanson locates him, he begins to shows another side of himself.
• Sho Aoyagi as Tsukumo, Kohaku's right arm man and the vice-leader of the former Mugen. He had an emptiness in his heart and lived an ephemeral life until he met Kohaku. He was seriously hurt in a car accident and had been in a hospital bed for a long period without consciousness. But now, he regains consciousness and continues to support his friend Kohaku.
• Arata Iura as Tatsuya, one of Kohaku's best friends since childhood. He founded Mugen with Kohaku because both of them they liked motorcycles, and then he retired to open a diner called "Itokan" on Sannoh shopping street. This was a dream he had always had, but he died soon after the realisation of his dream.
• Shuuka Fujii as Naomi, Tatsuya's sister. After the death of his brother, she continues to run the diner "Itokan", which become the hang-out for Sannoh Rengokai. She is also a childhood friend of Yamato, and she cares for members of Sannoh Rengokai, who often get injured in fights. She has a bitter tongue towards those boys, but she always treats their wounds gently.
• Takahiro as Masaki Amamiya. He has superior martial arts skills that can knock down hundreds of opponents. Together with his younger brother, Hiroto, the two men used to fight Mugen, which consisted of more than 100 people. They are the only men who could equal Kohaku in fightings. Meanwhile, he likes women so much that he is always trying to pick up at clubs.
• Hiroomi Tosaka as Hiroto Amamiya. He is a trouble maker who loves fighting from the bottom of his heart. Like his older brother, he has superior martial arts skills and used to fight with the powerful Mugen. He usually acts cool, but once he gets sick, he would become so cute that even his brother Masaki could not handle. In contrast with his brother, he is very good at different boxing styles.
• Keiji Kuroki as Rocky, leader of White Rascals. He is a spooky man with blonde hair, circular sunglasses,and teeth decorated with Silver Grillz. He would attack any man without mercy if those men hurt any woman, and would continue to monitor those men after that. His weapon is a walking stick with silver decoration.
• Yuya Endo as Koo, a White Rascals member who serves White Rascals leader Rocky like his butler. He always wears a thin smile on his face, and he rarely loses his politeness in his tone.
• Shuntarō Yanagi as Kaito, a member of White Rascals. Like his fellow partner Kizzy, he was a former member of White Rascals' long-time enemy Doubt. They left Doubt after they met with Rocky, and has become Rocky's followers ever since. He is a silent man, but in fights, he would scare his opponents with his intimidating eyes.
• Yu Inaba as Kizzy, a member of White Rascals. He was impressed by Rocky's care for women when he confronted Rocky in a fight as a member of White Rascals long-time enemy Doubt, and therefore he quit Doubt to become a supporter of Rocky. He always works with Kaito, who quit Doubt with him together.
• Yuki Yamada as Yoshiki Murayama, leader of Oya Koukou. As a student of Oya Koukou's part-time school, he survived the brutal tests of receiving 100 punches from a selection of violent people of the school and therefore became its leader according to the rules of the school. As a result, he united Oya Koukou for the first time in its history. He is small and slender, but no matter how hard he has been beaten, he has the toughness and guts to rise up again.
• Gōki Maeda as Yosuke Todoroki, leader of Oya Koukou 's full-time school. Though he was new to Oya Koukou, with his militant personality, he achieved the unification of Oya Koukou 's full-time school almost as soon as he entered the school. Though he almost equals Murayama in fights, he lost to Murayama in a fight for the leader of the whole Oya Koukou. Since then, he has been searching for the truth of strength.
• Masataka Kubota as Smoky, leader of Rude Boys. He considers every people living in the Nameless Street as his family, and he would crushed anyone who threatens the safety of those people. Though he is strong as a leader, he is in fact terminally ill.
• Reo Sano as Takeshi, a member of Rude Boys who can attack like he is breakdancing. As an orphan, he is named Takeshi after Beat Takeshi by his friends because he can fight and parkour with beats. Like Shion, he cares deeply for Smoky, who took care of him like his brother from he was little.
• Tasuku Nagase as Shion, a member of Rude Boys. Though he is concerned about Smoky's disease, he breaks the rules of the group and collaborates with the Iemurakai to secretly make dangerous drugs "Redrum" at an abandoned factory in the Nameless Street. When his secret is exposed, he leaves the Nameless Street.
• Karen Fujii as Lala. She was abandoned on the Nameless Street the same day as Smoky, and has lived with Smoky as his sister since then. She has a gentle personality and cares for the old people and children in the Nameless Street.
• Kento Hayashi as Norihisa Hyuga, leader of Daruma Ikka. He is the youngest of the four Hyuga brothers, who used to lead a gang called Hyuga Ikka under Kuryu Group, but were crushed by Mugen. He is alive to clear his stigma and forms Daruma Ikka with those who have the same grudge against Mugen, but he becomes not so sure about his revenge after his fight with Sannoh Rengokai.
• Kenchi Tachibana as Nikaido, an executive of Iemurakai of Kuryu Group. He met Noboru in prison and invited Noboru to join the dark side by saying: "If you're ready to burn the past, I'll show you the last path." He is a man with a strong ambition to rise to higher position in the gang, and he would use any means to achieve his goals.
• Tatsuya Nakamura as Tatsumi Iemura, leader of Iemurakai of Kuryu Group, and one of Kuryu Group's nine dragons. He longs to become the leader of Kuryu Group. Despite his gentle tone, he has no tolerance for betraying and failing.
• V.I as Lee, son of Chanson's boss Chang. He investigates Kohaku's past thoroughly and presents Kohaku with certain information to incite Kohaku to invade SWORD. He considers making things to go as the ways he wants to be the most enjoyable thing in the world.
• Elly as ICE, leader of Mighty Warriors. As a former mercenary, he boasts his overwhelming strength. He lived in a poor environment as a child, but his life changed when he encountered a discarded analog record. Since then, music and fashion becomes his relief. He has a dream of saving people with music, just like the way music has saved him.
• Alan Shirahama as Bernie, a member of Mighty Warriors and a hacker. He likes to make fun of people and often works as a DJ.
• Sway as Pearl, a member of Mighty Warriors. He has a cheerful personality and is the mood maker of the group.
• Kana Oya as Sarah, the only female member of Mighty Warriors. She was kidnapped by Doubt, but was saved by Mighty Warriors. She was unable to believe in the group's philosophy at first, but was attracted to ICE's straightforward mind and became a member. She goes around on a motorcycle.
• Shintaro Akiyama as Takano, a member of Doubt. He makes money by kidnapping and procurement, and is related with Iemurakai. He is hired by Lee to attack SWORD under Kohaku's command.
• Fujiko Kojima as Junko, leader of female gang Ichigo Milk. She pretends to be tough in front of her juniors, but deep inside, she is woman who is easy to fall in love. She likes Cobra, but she would become so shy when she meets him that she would lose control of her temper.
• Kyōko Koizumi as Odake, who has a bar on Sannoh shopping street. She is a close friend of Yamato's mother, Hisako Asahina, and she often serves as a life counsellor for the members of Sannoh Rengokai and gives them accurate advice.
• You as Hisako Asahina, Yamato's mother. Though she is obsessed with pachinko, she is a gentle mother who cares for her son. She is good at making onigiri. She was the former leader of Ichigo Milk, a legend, and the idol of girls of Ichigo Milk.
• Kōsuke Toyohara as Saigo, the cop who is in charge of the SWORD area. He takes bribes from Iemurakai and lets them do whatever they want in the area.

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