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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

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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.

Release Date : 1968-10-25

Language :Japanese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Toei Company

Production Country : Japan

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Cast

Koji Tsuruta

Character Name :

Original Name : 鶴田浩二

Gender : Male

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Character Name :

Original Name : 若山富三郎

Gender : Male

Sumiko Fuji

Character Name :

Original Name : 富司純子

Gender : Female

Ken Takakura

Character Name :

Original Name : 高倉健

Gender : Male

Takeya Nakamura

Character Name :

Original Name : 中村竹弥

Gender : Male

Minoru Ōki

Character Name :

Original Name : 大木実

Gender : Male

Kinzō Shin

Character Name :

Original Name : 信欣三

Gender : Male

Bin Amatsu

Character Name :

Original Name : 天津敏

Gender : Male

Rinichi Yamamoto

Character Name :

Original Name : 山本麟一

Gender : Male

Kunio Murai

Character Name :

Original Name : 村井国夫

Gender : Male

Shingo Yamashiro

Character Name :

Original Name : 山城新伍

Gender : Male

Tatsuo Endō

Character Name :

Original Name : 遠藤太津朗

Gender : Male

Hiroshi Nawa

Character Name :

Original Name : 名和宏

Gender : Male

Seiichirō Kameishi

Character Name :

Original Name : 亀石征一郎

Gender : Male

Nobuo Yana

Character Name :

Original Name : 八名信夫

Gender : Male

Keiichi Kitagawa

Character Name :

Original Name : Keiichi Kitagawa

Gender : Male

Hiroshi Date

Character Name :

Original Name : 伊達弘

Gender : Male

Seiya Satō

Character Name :

Original Name : 佐藤晟也

Gender : Male

Kōji Sekiyama

Character Name :

Original Name : 関山耕司

Gender : Male

Kosaku Okano

Character Name :

Original Name : 岡野耕作

Gender : Male

Nenji Kobayashi

Character Name :

Original Name : 小林稔侍

Gender : Male

Hiroki Matsukata

Character Name :

Original Name : 松方弘樹

Gender : Male

Sachiko Hidari

Character Name :

Original Name : 左幸子

Gender : Female

Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Character Name :

Original Name : 辰巳柳太郎

Gender : Male

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