Two Lives, Two Yakuza

Two Lives, Two Yakuza (1964)


  • Genre: Crime, Drama
  • Release Date: 1964-09-23
  • Runtime: 1h 39min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Toei Company
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Tsuneo Kobayashi

Summary

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).

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  • Koji Tsuruta

    as Shinjiro Kusakari
  • Sumiko Fuji

    as Yukiko Matsuhashi
  • Shigeru Amachi

    as Seiji Nawate
  • Takeshi Katō

    as Makoto Misugi
  • Eijirō Yanagi

    as Genichiro Matsuhashi
  • Sonny Chiba

    as Shinichi Matsuhashi
  • Yoshiko Sakuma

    as Kumi Kitajima
  • Kenji Ushio

    as
  • Fumitake Ōmura

    as
  • Akikane Sawa

    as
Writing Akira Murao Screenplay
Writing Shunsaku Iwashita Original Story
Crew Shichirô Hayashi Cinematography
Sound Chūji Kinoshita Music
Directing Tsuneo Kobayashi Director
Art Suguru Tanabe Production Design

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