Kanto Wanderer (1963)
1h 33m
Running Time
November 23, 1963Release Date
Kanto Wanderer (1963)
1h 33m
Running Time
November 23, 1963Release Date
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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

Akira Kobayashi
Katsuta

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

Seijun Suzuki
Director

Taiko Hirabayashi
Story

Kenzo Asada
Producer / Production Design

Shigeyoshi Mine
Director of Photography

Takeo Kimura
Art Direction

Masayoshi Ikeda
Original Music Composer

Yasutaro Yagi
Screenplay

Akira Suzuki
Editor

Masami Kuzū
Assistant Director

Masatoshi Takase
Fight Choreographer

Yutaka Onaka
Tattoo Designer

Kiyoshi Matsuoka

Masako Urushizawa

Terue Shigemori

Hiroshi Chiyoda

Shirō Yanase

Tōru Sumikawa

Masuo Kinugasa

Kōsuke Sumita
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
crooked gambler
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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