Synopsis

Pale Flower (1964)

Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals. Muraki becomes her mentor while simultaneously coping with the shifts of power that have affected the gangs while he was interred. When he notices a rogue, drug-addicted young punk hanging around the gambling dens, he realizes that Saeko’s insatiable lust for intense pleasures may be leading her to self-destruction.
Masahiro Shinoda, Ichirô Mizunuma, Gô Yoshida, Nariyuki Yamane
Ryō Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki, Chisako Hara, Koji Nakahara, Eijirô Tôno, Shinichirô Mikami, Seiji Miyaguchi, Isao Sasaki, Naoki Sugiura, Mikizo Hirata, Kyū Sazanka, Sōhei Kurata, Shin’ya Mizushima, Muga Takewaki, Hiroshi Mizushima, Isao Tamagawa, Tomoko Saitô, Keiko Kuni, Akio Tanaka, Reizaburô Yamamoto, Hideo Kidokoro, Osamu Abe, Keiko Mizushina, Shinobu Emi, Tae Hayakawa, Teruko Yamada, Fusako Maki, Toshio Shimamura, Fumio Tooyama, Masahiko Inoue, Isao Suenaga, Yoshihide Satô, Katsumasa Yamayoshi, Masaaki Hagihara, Yôji Doki, Keiji Tsuchida, Nobuo Takagi, Kentarô Imai, Eiji Tsumura, Shôsuke Oni, Hideo Asami, Hiroshi Nozawa, Shinkichi Hayabusa, Daijirô Minami, Kanji Ōsugi, Akie Kokubu, Hiromi Hagita, Shuichi Oki, Yûsaku Nishihara, Hiroshi Nikaido
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