Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza Online is Free. 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
- Country: Japan
- Director: Tomu Uchida
- Cast: Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Takeya Nakamura, Minoru Ōki, Kinzō Shin, Bin Amatsu, Rinichi Yamamoto, Kunio Murai, Shingo Yamashiro, Tatsuo Endō, Hiroshi Nawa, Seiichirō Kameishi, Nobuo Yana, Keiichi Kitagawa, Hiroshi Date, Seiya Satō, Kōji Sekiyama, Kosaku Okano, Nenji Kobayashi,
