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.
Genre: Crime
Stars: Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Takeya Nakamura, Minoru Ōki
Crew: Masaru Satō (Music), Tomu Uchida (Director), Gorō Tanada (Screenplay)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Toei Company
Runtime: 109 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 25, 1968
IMDb: 5
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