'Celebration of a Prisoner's Release') is a 1971 Japanese crime film directed by Hideo Gosha.

[2] The film was released theatrically in Japan on 30 October 1971 by Toho.

[1] The film was released by Toho International in the United States with English subtitles on 7 June 1972.

"[3] 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.

"[3] 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.