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The Symbol of a Man

7.0 96 mins Drama   1963
Nikkatsu Corporation  
Director(s): Akinori Matsuo

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.

Casts of The Symbol of a Man

Hideki Takahashi

as Ryuji Oshima

Masako Izumi

as Haruko

Kenjirō Ishiyama

as Shozaburo Oshima

Akira Nagoya

as Saiga

Yukiko Todoroki

as Kiyo Murata

Asao Koike

as Tatsu

Hiroshi Kondō

as Yuzo

Shirō Ōsaka

as Kanzo

Ichiro Kijima

as Matsukawa

Yuzo Kiura

as Kudo

Nakajirō Tomita

as Nishino

Shōbun Inoue

as Mukaino

Shosei Muto

as Tsukamoto

Nobuo Kawakami

as Ueki

Kan Sugi

as Ejima

Someshō Matsumoto

as Tokudano

Keisuke Yukioka

as Hospital Director

Shirō Yanase

as Tsubo furi

Jūkei Fujioka

as Lieutenant Colonel Sagawa

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