Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (movie)
人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常- User score: 6
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Tomu Uchida
- Production companies: Toei Company
- Genre: Crime
- Release date: 10/25/1968
- Run time: 109 min.
Movie description
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.
