Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza backdrop
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza poster
Trailer
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
6.0
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1h 49m
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1968
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Released
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 poster
Koji Tsuruta
Tomisaburō Wakayama poster
Tomisaburō Wakayama
Sumiko Fuji poster
Sumiko Fuji
Ken Takakura poster
Ken Takakura
Takeya Nakamura poster
Takeya Nakamura
Minoru Ōki poster
Minoru Ōki
Kinzō Shin poster
Kinzō Shin
Bin Amatsu poster
Bin Amatsu
Rinichi Yamamoto poster
Rinichi Yamamoto
Kunio Murai poster
Kunio Murai
Shingo Yamashiro poster
Shingo Yamashiro
Tatsuo Endō poster
Tatsuo Endō
Hiroshi Nawa poster
Hiroshi Nawa
Seiichirō Kameishi poster
Seiichirō Kameishi
Nobuo Yana poster
Nobuo Yana
Keiichi Kitagawa poster
Keiichi Kitagawa
Hiroshi Date poster
Hiroshi Date
Seiya Satō poster
Seiya Satō
Kōji Sekiyama poster
Kōji Sekiyama
Kosaku Okano poster
Kosaku Okano

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