Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Overview
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.
About Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968)
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968) is a crime movie produced by Toei Company in Japan. It was directed by Tomu Uchida and written by Gorō Tanada. On screen you will see Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura and Takeya Nakamura. With a runtime of 1h 49m, the film averages 7.0/10 across 3 TMDB ratings.
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