人生劇場飛車角と吉良常

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With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.

Genere: Crime

Cast: 鶴田浩二, 若山富三郎, 富司純子, Ken Takakura, 中村竹弥, 大木実, 信欣三, 天津敏, 山本麟一, 村井国夫, 山城新伍, 遠藤太津朗, 名和宏