The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.
Stars: Shintarō Katsu, Yukiko Fuji, Hiroshi Mizuhara, Saburo Date, Taizō Fukami, Ryūtarō Gomi
Crew: Akira Naitô (Art Direction), Kazuo Miyagawa (Cinematography), Tokuzō Tanaka (Director), Kan Shimozawa (Original Story), Hiroshi Yamada (Editor), Akira Ifukube (Music)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Daiei Film
Runtime: 86 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 17, 1964
IMDb: 10
Keywords:yakuza
