The Man from the East (1961)
東から来た男
Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to develop. Kenta befriends a wandering poet and the younger sister (Hoshi) of a boxer Keota killed in the ring.
- Date of release
- 1961-03-18
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Umetsugu Inoue
Casting
- Yūzō Kayama — Kenta Hasebe
- Yuriko Hoshi — Michiko Homma
- Makoto Satō — Uesugi
- Jun Funato — Egawa
- Shirō Ōsaka
- Kenji Sahara
- Tōru Abe
- Shinichi Yanagisawa
- Kokinji Katsura
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