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Song of the Underworld

0.0 89 mins 1956
Nikkatsu Corporation  
Director(s): Haruyasu Noguchi

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).

Casts of Song of the Underworld

Yūjirō Ishihara

as "Diamond" Fuyu

Hiroshi Nawa

as Mitsuo Tsuruta

Hisako Yamane

as Tatsuko Iwata

Minako Katsuki

as Hanako Yamada

Yoshiko Tsubouchi

as Satoko Izu

Ichirō Sugai

as Okaruhachi

Kaku Takashina

as Tetsu

Eiko Higashitani

as Matsue Ichikawa

Mitsuko Mitagawa

as Tokiko Izu

Taizō Fukami

as Yoshida

Keisuke Yukioka

as Meguro

Yōichirō Mikawa

as Yagami

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