Song of the Underworld

(1956)

Year: 1956

Runtime: 89 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 野口晴康

Cast: 石原裕次郎, 名和宏, 山根寿子, 香月美奈子, 坪内美子, Итиро Сугай, 二本柳寛, 高品格, 東谷暎子, Mitsuko Mitagawa

Plot

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).