Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
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.
Release Date
October 25, 1968Runtime
109 minGenres
CrimeDirected by
Tomu UchidaScreenplay by
Gorō TanadaLanguage
JapaneseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
Released
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「人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常」(公開年月日 1968年10月25日) 予告篇
Cast24 cast members
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