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

村井國夫

山城新伍

遠藤太津朗

名和宏

亀石征一郎

八名信夫

北川恵一

伊達弘

佐藤晟也

関山耕司

岡野耕作

小林稔侍

Crew

内田吐夢

棚田吾郎

尾崎士郎

仲沢半次郎

佐藤勝

長沢嘉樹

藤田博

梅谷茂

三堀篤