Song of the Underworld (1956)
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).
- Released
- 1956-12-12
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Haruyasu Noguchi, Yasutaro Yagi
Cast
- 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
- Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi as Izu
- Kaku Takashina as Tetsu
- Eiko Higashitani as Matsue Ichikawa
- Mitsuko Mitagawa as Tokiko Izu
- Taizō Fukami as Yoshida
- Saburo Hiromatsu as Sato