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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

10/25/1968

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1hr 49min

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Crime

STORY

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Koji Tsuruta
  • Tomisaburō Wakayama
  • Sumiko Fuji
  • Ken Takakura
  • Takeya Nakamura

    Director

  • Tomu Uchida

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Toei Company

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

Cast

Koji Tsuruta

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Sumiko Fuji

Ken Takakura

Takeya Nakamura

Minoru Ōki

Kinzō Shin

Bin Amatsu

Rinichi Yamamoto

Kunio Murai

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