About the film
Hishakaku and Kiratsune : A Tale of Two Yakuza
Release Date: July 12, 1968
| Year | : | 1968 |
| Slogan | : | «» |
| Genres | : | Crime |
| Production Companies | : | Toei Company |
| Director | : | Tomu Uchida |
| Producers | : | |
| Writers | : | Gorô Tanada |
| RunTime | : | 109 mins. |
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.
Main Actors
Koji Tsuruta
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Tomisaburō Wakayama
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Sumiko Fuji
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Ken Takakura
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Takeya Nakamura
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Minoru Ôki
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Kinzō Shin
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Bin Amatsu
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Rinichi Yamamoto
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Kunio Murai
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Shingo Yamashiro
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Tatsuo Endō
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Hiroshi Nawa
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Seiichirô Kameishi
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Nobuo Yana
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Keiichi Kitagawa
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Hiroshi Date
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Seiya Satô
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Kôji Sekiyama
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Kosaku Okano
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Nenji Kobayashi
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Hiroki Matsukata
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Sachiko Hidari
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Ryutaro Tatsumi
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