Tattooed Life

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Tattooed Life
Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Produced by Masayuki Takagi
Written by Kei Hattori
Kinya Naoi
Starring Hideki Takahashi
Masako Izumi
Yuji Odaka
Music by Masayoshi Ikeda
Cinematography Kurataro Takamura
Distributed by Nikkatsu
Release date(s) Japan Nov 13, 1965
Running time 87 min
Country Japan
Language Japanese
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Tattooed Life (刺青一代 Irezumi ichidai?) is a 1965 yakuza action movie directed by Seijun Suzuki. The film stars Hideki Takahashi as "Silver Fox" Tetsu. The story follows the flight of yakuza hitman Tetsu and his younger, artistic brother Kenji after the latter kills a yakuza boss in a double cross. The pair is pursued by the yakuza and police as they head for Manchuria. They are swindled of their money before they can reach their destination and take labor jobs on a tunnel project, each falling in love with the their new boss's wife and daughter, respectively.

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Japanese Cinema
Films by Seijun Suzuki
1950s Victory Is Mine | Pure Emotions of the Sea | Satan's Town | Inn of the Floating Weeds | Eight Hours of Terror | The Naked Woman and the Gun | Underworld Beauty | Spring Never Came | Young Breasts | Voice Without a Shadow | Love Letter | Passport to Darkness | Age of Nudity
1960s Take Aim at the Police Van | Sleep of the Beast | Clandestine Zero Line | Everything Goes Wrong | Fighting Delinquents | Tokyo Knights | The Big Boss Who Needs No Gun | Man with a Shotgun | A New Wind Over the Mountain Pass | Blood Red Water in the Channel | Million Dollar Smash and Grab | Teen Yakuza | The Guys Who Put Money on Me | Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards | Youth of the Beast | The Bastard | Kanto Wanderer | Flowers and the Angry Waves | Gate of Flesh | Our Blood Will Not Forgive | Story of a Prostitute | Story of a Bastard: Born Under a Bad Star | Tattooed Life | Carmen of Kawachi | Tokyo Drifter | Fighting Elegy | Branded to Kill
1970s A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1980s Zigeunerweisen |Kagero-za | Capone Cries a Lot | Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon
1990s Yumeji | Marriage
2000s Pistol Opera | Princess Raccoon
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