Release Date

25 Oct, 1968

Runtime

01:49: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常

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Actors

鶴田浩二

若山富三郎

富司純子

高倉健

中村竹弥

大木実

信欣三

天津敏

山本麟一

村井国夫

山城新伍

遠藤太津朗

名和宏

亀石征一郎

八名信夫

Keiichi Kitagawa

伊達弘

佐藤晟也

関山耕司

岡野耕作

小林稔侍

Crew

佐藤勝

内田吐夢

棚田吾郎