| Kanto Wanderer | |
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| Directed by | Seijun Suzuki |
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| Produced by | Kenzō Asada |
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| Cinematography | Shigeyoshi Mine |
| Edited by | Akira Suzuki |
| Music by | Masayoshi Ikeda |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Kanto Wanderer (関東無宿, Kantō mushuku, aka The Woman Sharper and Kanto Vagabonds) is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Daizaburo Hirata and Hiroko Itō.[2] 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.
- ^ Suzuki, Seijun (January 1991). "In de tijd van KANTŌ MUSHUKU—The Days of KANTŌ MUSHUKU". De woestijn onder de kersenbloesem—The Desert under the Cherry Blossoms. Uitgeverij Uniepers Abcoude. pp. 33–40. ISBN 90-6825-090-6.
- ^ 日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第十六章個と侠の相克-裕次郎、旭、錠の任侠アクション p.408-433 冷たく乾いた夢-「関東無宿」「花と怒濤」 ISBN 4624710878