Hiroko Minami

1962 Japanese movie

Kikyo, un banal professeur de criminologie maladroit et vieux garçon devient la cible d'une guilde d'assassins entraînés par son père, un cerveau criminel. En tuant les douze disciples, Kikyo vise à expier les crimes de son père. Cependant, il ne sait rien des noms, des visages ou des styles de meurtre distinctifs des disciples.. Il va essayer de sauver sa peau et de remonter jusqu'à leur chef à l'aide d'une journaliste et d'un voleur de voitures.

Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.

Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.