Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

Synopsis

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 Cast

Koji Tsuruta

Age : N/A | Popularity : 24%

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Age : N/A | Popularity : 96%

Sumiko Fuji

Age : N/A | Popularity : 37%

Ken Takakura

Age : N/A | Popularity : 71%

Takeya Nakamura

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Minoru Ōki

Age : N/A | Popularity : 17%

Kinzō Shin

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Bin Amatsu

Age : N/A | Popularity : 32%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tomu Uchida
Writing	Screenplay	Gorō Tanada
Sound	Music	Masaru Satō
Department	Role	Name

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