Movie Description
人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
(1968)Overview
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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Tomu Uchida
- Editor : Yoshiki Nagasawa
- Cast : Koji Tsuruta,Tomisaburō Wakayama,Sumiko Fuji,Ken Takakura,Takeya Nakamura,Minoru Ōki,Kinzō Shin,Bin Amatsu,Rinichi Yamamoto,Kunio Murai,Shingo Yamashiro,Tatsuo Endō,Hiroshi Nawa,Seiichirō Kameishi,Nobuo Yana,Keiichi Kitagawa,Hiroshi Date,Seiya Satō,Kōji Sekiyama,Kosaku Okano,Nenji Kobayashi,Hiroki Matsukata,Sachiko Hidari,Ryūtarō Tatsumi
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Facts
Original Title人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
Status Released
Release Information
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1968-10-25
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 49m
Production CompaniesToei Company
Genres
- Crime
