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The Blossom and the Sword
Film / 1973

The Blossom and the Sword

Directed by Tai Katō
ActionDrama

★ 7.7/10Audience rating

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

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Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

Cast

Hiroko MakiMine Kondô Tetsuya WatariSeijirô Tanaka Junko TodaTsuru Ogawa Tōru AbeTsuyoshi Kishimoto Kinya KitaojiCaptain Sakagami Gō KatōToyohiko Kagawa Kunio MuraiMinoru Ôhama Meichō SoganoyaKinzô Nagata Kin SugaiOkin Akira Shioji Kamatari Fujiwara Michiko Otsuka
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Bontarō Miake Nakajirō Tomita Kimiji Harada Keiji Sakakida Shigeo Katō Yasuzō Ogawa Shōji Ōki Motoo Noguchi Shosei Muto Masahiko Tanimura Kayako Sono Saburo Date Seiji Endō Mammoth Suzuki Sanji Kojima Kanta Mori Kazuo Suzuki Koji Miemachi

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