Tattooed Life
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Tattooed Life | |
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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) | 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.
[edit] External links
- Tattooed Life at the Internet Movie Database
- (Japanese) Tattooed Life at the Japanese Movie Database
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 | |
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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 |