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Kanto Wanderer is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Daizaburo Hirata and Hiroko Itō. It was a programme picture produced by the Nikkatsu Company to fill out the second half of a double bill with Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman. The film was based on a novel by Taiko Hirabayashi and had been previously adapted to the screen as Song from the Underworld (1956) by Suzuki's mentor, Hiroshi Noguchi. The story involves Katsuta, a yakuza member who falls in love and is torn between giri (duty) and ninjo (humanity). The Kanto of the title refers to a large plain on which Tokyo is located.
Original Release
11/23/1963
US Release
02/08/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Akira Kobayashi | Katsuta |
Chieko Matsubara | Tokiko / Izu Tokiko (schoolgirl) |
Daisaburô Hirata | Daiyamondo no Fuyu / Diamond no Fuyu |
Hiroko Itô | Mrs. Iwata (Katsuta's lover) / Tatsuko |
Sanae Nakahara | Yamada Hanako |
Kaku Takashina | Yakami |
Chikako Shin | Ishikawa Matsue |
Eimei Esumi | Business commuter |
Ichiro Kijima | Wakabayashi |
Keisuke Noro | Bikkuri Toru / Tetsu |
Directors
Writers
Taiko Hirabayashi, Yasutaro Yagi
Cast
Name | Character |
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Akira Kobayashi | Katsuta |
Chieko Matsubara | Tokiko / Izu Tokiko (schoolgirl) |
Daisaburô Hirata | Daiyamondo no Fuyu / Diamond no Fuyu |
Hiroko Itô | Mrs. Iwata (Katsuta's lover) / Tatsuko |
Sanae Nakahara | Yamada Hanako |
Kaku Takashina | Yakami |
Chikako Shin | Ishikawa Matsue |
Eimei Esumi | Business commuter |
Ichiro Kijima | Wakabayashi |
Keisuke Noro | Bikkuri Toru / Tetsu |
Hiroshi Kôno | Meguro |
Kazuo Kinugasa | (as Masuo Kinukasa) |
Hiroshi Chô | Detective |
Keiko Sasaki | Ito Sachiko / Satoko Izu |
Shirô Yanase | Oniwaka no sato |
Kôji Seyama | Ponchan |
Tôru Sumikawa | |
Akira Hisamatsu | (as Kyôsuke Hisamatsu) / Isogawa |
Hiroshi Takao | Kan Bun / Ichiro |
Shirô Tonami | Toda |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kenzo Asada | Producer |