Tatooed Life

Irezumi ichidai, Tatooed Life, feature film, 1965.

DIRECTED BY: Seijun Suzuki

Tatooed Life

CAST:
Hideki Takahashi (Murakami Tetsutaro),
Kotobuki Hananomoto (Murakami Kenji),
Hiroko Itô (Kinoshita Masayo),
Masako Izumi (Kinoshita Midori),
Yuji Odaka (Ezaki Osamu)

SCRIPT:
Kei Hattori,
Kinya Naoi

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Kurataro Takamura

Synopsis:
When his younger brother kills a highly positioned member of yakuza in a duel, Tetsu has to choose between safety and loyalty. Not wanting his younger brother to end up like him, they decide to run away. They plan to go to Manchuria but get double-crossed by a professional scoundrel. In order to hide from the yakuza, they become miners in a remote town.

16 mm, color, 87 min