Film

Song of the Underworld

1956 · 1h 29m

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).

Yūjirō Ishihara

"Diamond" Fuyu

Hiroshi Nawa

Mitsuo Tsuruta

Hisako Yamane

Tatsuko Iwata

Minako Katsuki

Hanako Yamada

Yoshiko Tsubouchi

Satoko Izu

Ichirō Sugai

Okaruhachi

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Izu

Kaku Takashina

Tetsu

Eiko Higashitani

Matsue Ichikawa

Mitsuko Mitagawa

Tokiko Izu

Taizō Fukami

Yoshida

Saburo Hiromatsu

Sato

Keisuke Yukioka

Meguro

Yōichirō Mikawa

Yagami

Shirō Yanase

• Haruyasu NoguchiDirector
• Yasutaro YagiScreenplay
• Taiko HirabayashiStory
• Kenzo AsadaProducer
• Kazue NagatsukaDirector of Photography
• Masanori TsujiiEditor

Release date

December 12, 1956

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 29m