Harbour Toast: Victory in My Hands

Minato no kanpai: Shôri o waga te ni, Harbour Toast: Victory in My Hands, feature film, 1956.

DIRECTED BY: Seijun Suzuki

Harbour Toast: Victory in My Hands

CAST:
Keiko Amaji,
Shinsuke Maki,
Sumiko Minami,
Kô Mishima

SCRIPT:
Toshio Nakagawa,
Kirirô Urayama

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kumenobu Fujioka

Synopsis:
This is Seijun Suzuki’s directing debut and the first of his many films for Nikkatsu production house for which he became famous. Planned as a typical youth film, it belongs to the Kayo-eiga genre, which utilized stories based on hit pop songs. The hero of the film is a sailor who helps his brother to escape from the yakuza that are chasing him. His troubles begin when he falls in love with the wrong girl and then double-crosses the yakuza by fixing a horse race…

35 mm, b/w, 65 min