Jinseigekijo: Hishakaku to Kiratsune (1968)

Crime

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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Runtime: 109 mins Rating: 0.0

Cast

Ken Takakura

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Cast

Ken Takakura

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Koji Tsuruta

Junko Fuji

Crew

Tomu Uchida

Director

Gorô Tanada

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Jinseigekijo: Hishakaku to Kiratsune (1968)

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Cast

Ken Takakura

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Koji Tsuruta

Junko Fuji

Crew

Tomu Uchida

Director

Gorô Tanada

Screenplay

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