Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
- Originální název: 人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
- Žánr: Krimi
- Režie: Tomu Uchida
- Hudba:
- Hrají: Kunio Murai, Hiroshi Date, Keiichi Kitagawa, Sumiko Fuji, Nendži Kobajaši, Kosaku Okano, Rin'iči Jamamoto, Ken Takakura, Seija Sató, Kódži Sekijama, Tacuo Endó, Hiroki Matsukata, Šingo Jamaširo, Nobuo Yana, Seiičiró Kameiši, Tomisaburó Wakajama, Kinzó Šin, Kódži Curuta, Takeya Nakamura, Hiroshi Nawa , další...
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.















