Flower Cards Chivalry(花札渡世)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Japan · 1967
1h 32m
Director Masashige Narusawa
Starring Tatsuo Umemiya, Haruko Wanibuchi, Junzaburô Ban, Tatsuo Endō
Genre Crime, Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
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
The Wild
Start spreading the newspaper.
- ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 2006
- Director Steve 'Spaz' Williams
- Cast Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner, Richard Kind
- Genre Family, Animation
- Available on Disney Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, AMC on Demand
New Police Story
(新警察故事)
Failures and suffering make a real hero
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, China • 2004
- Director Benny Chan
- Cast Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Charlie Yeung, Charlene Choi, Daniel Wu, Dave Wong Kit
- Genre Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Barbie and the Three Musketeers
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States • 2009
- Director William Lau
- Cast Kelly Sheridan, Tim Curry, Kira Tozer, Willow Johnson, Dorla Bell, Nicole Oliver
- Genre Animation, Family
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Il paradiso all'improvviso
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 2003
- Director Leonardo Pieraccioni
- Cast Leonardo Pieraccioni, Angie Cepeda, Alessandro Haber, Rocco Papaleo, Anna Maria Barbera, Gea Martire
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Would I Lie to You? 3
(La Vérité si je mens ! 3)
Truth, we missed you!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 2012
- Director Thomas Gilou
- Cast Richard Anconina, José Garcia, Nicole Calfan, Bruno Solo, Vincent Elbaz, Aure Atika
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Sympathy for the Underdog
(博徒外人部隊)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1971
- Director Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast Koji Tsuruta, Noboru Andô, Kenji Imai, Akiko Kudō, Kenjiro Morokado, Rinichi Yamamoto
- Genre Drama, Action, Crime
- Available on No streaming locations found.