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Three Yakuza (1965)
Directed by Tadashi Sawashima
Overview
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
Length 120 minutes
Actors
Kinnosuke Nakamura | Tatsuya Nakadai | Takashi Shimura | Hiroki Matsukata | Hiroko Sakuramachi | Wakaba Irie | Sumiko Fuji | Kunie Tanaka | Tatsuo Endô | Akira Shioji | Tokinosuke Nakamura | Sen Yano | Kenji Egi | Shinjirô Ehara | Takeshi Katô | Yutaka Sera | Asao Uchida | Shinnosuke Ogata | Yasushi Ôshiro | Shinzô Hotta | Masuo Kamiki | Kayoko Tominaga | Ryuko Azuma | Sakae Nishizaki | Hiroshi Mizuno | Chieko Naniwa | Mineko Maruhira | Kinji Nakamura | Kinnosuke Takamatsu | Kunijirô Yanagi | Gorô Naniwa | Shunsuke Haruga | Shunji Daito | Tokumaro Dan | Hanzo Kataoka | Heitaro Gori | Masaji Arikawa | Kuniomi Kitani