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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968)

ALL 10/25/1968 (ja) Crime 109 Min
  • Release
    10/25/1968
  • Production
    Toei Company
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
  • Original language
    ja
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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.

  1. Tomu Uchida

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968) 109 Min

ALL 10/25/1968 (ja)
Crime
  • Release 10/25/1968
  • Production
    Toei Company
  • Original title 人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
  • ja
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Tomu Uchida

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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