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Song of the Underworld (1956)
Directed by Haruyasu Noguchi
Overview
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu’s sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko’s husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki’s Kanto Wanderer).
Length 89 minutes
Actors
Yûjirô Ishihara | Hiroshi Nawa | Hisako Yamane | Minako Katsuki | Yoshiko Tsubouchi | Ichirô Sugai | Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi | Kaku Takashina | Eiko Higashitani | Mitsuko Mitagawa | Taizô Fukami | Saburo Hiromatsu | Keisuke Yukioka | Yôichirô Mikawa | Shirô Yanase