Pale Flower
1964 · ★ 7.3 · Dir. Masahiro Shinoda
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.
- Released
- 1964-03-01
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Language
- JA
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Ryō Ikebe
Muraki
Mariko Kaga
Saeko
Takashi Fujiki
Yo
Chisako Hara
Shinko Furuta
Eijirō Tōno
Yasuoka
Shinichirô Mikami
Reiji
Naoki Sugiura
Aikawa
Seiji Miyaguchi
Funada
Isao Sasaki
Jiro
Koji Nakahara
Tamaki
Mikizo Hirata
Mizoguchi
Reizaburô Yamamoto
Keywords
GangsterEx-conYakuzaCriminal pastPolice raidGamblerSevered fingerRelease from prisonJapanese noirJapanese new waveRacetrackGambling house
