Song of the Underworld
1956A 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).
Acted in
Yūjirō Ishihara
as "Diamond" Fuyu
Hiroshi Nawa
as Mitsuo Tsuruta
Hisako Yamane
as Tatsuko Iwata
Minako Katsuki
as Hanako Yamada
Yoshiko Tsubouchi
as Satoko Izu
Ichirō Sugai
as Okaruhachi
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
as Izu
Kaku Takashina
as Tetsu
Eiko Higashitani
as Matsue Ichikawa
Mitsuko Mitagawa
as Tokiko Izu
Taizō Fukami
as Yoshida
Saburo Hiromatsu
as Sato
Keisuke Yukioka
as Meguro
Yôichirô Mikawa
as Yagami
Shirō Yanase
