The Blossom and the Sword (1973)
日本侠花伝
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
Casting
- Hiroko Maki — Mine Kondô
- Tetsuya Watari — Seijirô Tanaka
- Junko Toda — Tsuru Ogawa
- Tōru Abe — Tsuyoshi Kishimoto
- Kinya Kitaoji — Captain Sakagami
- Gō Katō — Toyohiko Kagawa
- Kunio Murai — Minoru Ôhama
- Meichō Soganoya — Kinzô Nagata
- Kin Sugai — Okin
- Akira Shioji
- Kamatari Fujiwara
- Michiko Otsuka
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