乾いた花 (1964)

Wissenswertes

Pale Flower is a 1964 Japanese film noir directed by Masahiro Shinoda. The film is about Muraki, a Yakuza hitman just released from prison. At an illegal gambling parlor, he finds himself drawn to a mysterious young woman named Saeko. Though Saeko loses large sums of money, she asks Muraki to find games with larger and larger stakes. The two become involved in an intense mutually destructive relationship. Film critic Roger Ebert gave Pale Flower four stars and placed it on his list of Great Movies.

Production

Director Shinoda was influenced by Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal while making the film. Shinoda chose the subject of yakuza as he felt the yakuza world is the only place where a Japanese ceremonial structure is sustained. The movie was adapted from a novel by Shintaro Ishihara, with Shinoda and Masaru Baba splitting the script for the film (the former doing the first half and the latter doing the second half).

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