Two Lives, Two Yakuza

Overview

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).

Details

Status

Released

Release date

September 23, 1964

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Production

Toei Company

Cast

Kenji Ushio,Yoshiko Sakuma,Sumiko Fuji,Koji Tsuruta,Takeshi Katō,Akikane Sawa,Fumitake Ōmura,Sonny Chiba,Eijirō Yanagi,Shigeru Amachi

Director

Tsuneo Kobayashi

Writer

Akira Murao,Shunsaku Iwashita

Cinematography

Shichirō Hayashi

Music

Chūji Kinoshita

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6606180