

22/05/1965
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.

Kinnosuke Nakamura
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Tatsuya Nakadai
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Takashi Shimura
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Hiroki Matsukata
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Hiroko Sakuramachi
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Wakaba Irie
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Sumiko Fuji
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Kunie Tanaka
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Tatsuo Endō
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Akira Shioji
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Tokinosuke Nakamura
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Sen Yano
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Kenji Egi
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Shinjirō Ehara
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Takeshi Katō
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Yutaka Sera
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Asao Uchida
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Shinnosuke Ogata
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Yasushi Ōshiro
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Shinzō Hotta
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Masuo Kamiki
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Kayoko Tominaga
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Ryūko Azuma
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Sakae Nishizaki
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Hiroshi Mizuno
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Chieko Naniwa
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Mineko Maruhira
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Kinji Nakamura
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Kinnosuke Takamatsu
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Kunijirō Yanagi
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Gorō Naniwa
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Shunsuke Haruga
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Shunji Daito
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Tokumaro Dan
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Hanzō Kataoka
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Heitaro Gori
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Masaharu Arikawa
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Kuniomi Kitani
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