
Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo
2019, Japanese. Directed by Jirō Ishikawa.
Akira Kiyota (Ryusuke Nakamura), an ordinary salesman with poor performance and heavy consumer-loan debt, feels crushed by the harshness of reality—far from his wild days as a former biker gang leader. One night, while entertaining clients at a club, Kiyota loses his temper and punches a customer. The club happens to be protected by his high school classmate Kenji Hosokawa (Sho Ikushima). Kenji knocks out the rampaging Kiyota with an ashtray. When Kiyota wakes up, he finds himself in Kenji’s office. Kenji invites him into his yakuza group, telling him this might be his one chance to turn his life around…
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- 1h 3m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 25 January 2019
- Original title
- 組長への道 餓鬼極道
- Country
- Japan
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Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo runs 63 minutes (1h 3m).
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Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 25 January 2019. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo?
Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo (2019) was directed by Jirō Ishikawa and stars Ryusuke Nakamura, Sho Ikushima, Keisuke Kida.