Kanto Wanderer (1963)
1h 33m
Running Time
November 23, 1963Release Date
Kanto Wanderer (1963)
1h 33m
Running Time
November 23, 1963Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
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Cast & Crew.
Akira Kobayashi
Katsuta
Chieko Matsubara
Tokiko
Daizaburo Hirata
Diamond no Fuyu
Hiroko Itō
Tatsuko
Sanae Nakahara
Yamada Hanako
Kaku Takashina
Yakami
Chikako Shin
Ishikawa Matsue
Eimei Esumi
Ichiro Kijima
Wakabayashi
Keisuke Noro
Tetsu
Hiroshi Kōno
Meguro
Hiroshi Chō
Detective
Keiko Sasaki
Satoko Izu
Kōji Seyama
Ponchan
Akira Hisamatsu
Isogawa
Hiroshi Takao
Ichiro
Shiro Tonami
Toda
Yūnosuke Itō
Okaru Hachi
Tōru Abe
Boss Yoshida
Kinzō Shin
Udebun
Taiji Tonoyama
Boss Izu
Taiko Hirabayashi
Story
Seijun Suzuki
Director
Kenzo Asada
Producer / Production Design
Media.
Details.
Release DateNovember 23, 1963
Original Name関東無宿
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
yakuza
Wiki.
Kanto Wanderer (関東無宿, Kantō mushuku, aka The Woman Sharper and Kanto Vagabonds) is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Daizaburo Hirata and Hiroko Itō. It was a programme picture produced by the Nikkatsu Company to fill out the second half of a double bill with Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman. The film was based on a novel by Taiko Hirabayashi and had been previously adapted to the screen as Song from the Underworld (1956) by Suzuki's mentor, Hiroshi Noguchi. The story involves Katsuta, a yakuza member who falls in love and is torn between giri (duty) and ninjo (humanity). The Kanto of the title refers to a large plain on which Tokyo is located.
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