Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza poster

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

7.0(3)19681h 49m1

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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Language
Japanese

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Tomu Uchida

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Japan

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  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical25 Oct 1968
  • RussiaRU

    • Theatrical (limited)Retrospective of Tomu Uchida Films (Moscow)30 Sept 2012

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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza was released on 25 October 1968.

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