Trailer
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
6.0
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1h 49m
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1968
Overview
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
Koji Tsuruta
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Sumiko Fuji
Ken Takakura
Takeya Nakamura
Minoru Ōki
Kinzō Shin
Bin Amatsu
Rinichi Yamamoto
Kunio Murai
Shingo Yamashiro
Tatsuo Endō
Hiroshi Nawa
Seiichirō Kameishi
Nobuo Yana
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