Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza 1968
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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.
- Released : 1968-10-25
- Runtime : 109 minutes
- Genre : Crime
- Stars : Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Takeya Nakamura
- Director : Masaru Satō, Tomu Uchida, Gorō Tanada
