Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza(人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Japan · 1968
1h 49m
Director Tomu Uchida
Starring Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura
Genre Crime
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
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.
We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States, United Kingdom • 1987
- Director Kevin Sullivan
- Cast Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Patricia Hamilton, Jonathan Crombie, Wendy Hiller, Frank Converse
- Genre Drama, Romance, Family
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Gaston & Leo in Hong Kong
(Gaston en Leo in Hong Kong)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Belgium • 1988
- Director Paul Cammermans
- Cast Gaston Berghmans, Leo Martin, Pat McDonald, Rudi Falkenhagen, Richard Ng, Max Schnur
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Tiny Times 3
(小时代3:刺金时代)
To be blind, to be loved.
- ✭ ✭
- China • 2014
- Director Guo Jingming
- Cast Yang Mi, Amber Kuo, Bea Hayden Kuo, Xie Yi-lin, Kai Ko, Chen Xuedong
- Genre Romance, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Soulless 2
(Духless 2)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Russia • 2015
- Director Roman Prygunov
- Cast Danila Kozlovsky, Dominique Pinon, Miloš Biković, Mariya Andreeva, Pavel Vorozhtsov
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Riceboy Sleeps
Building a new life in the Canadian suburbs, a Korean mother and son struggle with a growing rift between them.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada • 2023
- Director Anthony Shim
- Cast Choi Seung-yoon, Ethan Hwang, Dohyun Noel Hwang, Anthony Shim, Jerina Son, Hunter Dillon
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Redbox