The Wolves (1971 film)

The film was released theatrically in Japan on 30 October 1971 by Toho.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|2008|p=278}} The film was released by Toho International in the United States with English subtitles on 7 June 1972.{{sfn|Galbraith IV|2008|p=278}}

Vincent Canby of the New York Times reviewed the film in 1982, describing it as "a rather enjoyable if often mysterious and esoteric entertainment for someone coming upon the genre for the first time."{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0DE2DB103BF932A0575BC0A964948260|work=New York Times|title=Japanese 'Wolves'|date=31 August 1982|access-date=13 March 2017|last=Canby|first=Vincent|authorlink=Vincent Canby}} Canby concluded that the film was "resolutely sentimental and picturesque" and "a most peculiar mixture of stylized prettiness and blood and gore, which is, I suspect, the film's main purpose" and "makes a feeble stab at social criticism" and that a viewer may "not understand everything that's going on in The Wolves, but I doubt that you'll be bored." Time Out declared that, while "Hideo Gosha is virtually unknown in the West", The Wolves is "a yakuza movie in a class of its own" and "a stunningly realised thriller", concluding that "Gosha's muscular, Expressionist colour imagery blazes through the screen."{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/london/film/the-wolves|work=Time Out|title=The Wolves|access-date=13 March 2017}}

• Tatsuya Nakadai
• Noboru Ando
• Toshio Kurosawa as Tsutomu Onodera

• List of Japanese films of 1971

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Category:Japanese crime films

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Category:Yakuza films

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