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

25 October 1968 Crime 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.

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Cast

Crew

Tomu Uchida Director

Gorō Tanada Screenplay

Shiro Ozaki Novel

Hanjirō Nakazawa Director of Photography

Masaru Satō Original Music Composer

International Titles

Jinsei gekijô: Hishakaku to Kiratsune Trailer

International Releases Dates

Japan 25 October 1968

Russia 30 September 2012

Production Companies

Toei Company

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