The Man from the East (1961)
Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to develop. Kenta befriends a wandering poet and the younger sister (Hoshi) of a boxer Keota killed in the ring.
Director:
Umetsugu Inoue
Writers:
Katsuya Susaki, Umetsugu Inoue, Yoshio Hasuike.
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Yūzō Kayama as Kenta Hasebe |
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Yuriko Hoshi as Michiko Homma |
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Makoto Satō as Uesugi |
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Jun Funato as Egawa |
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Shirō Ōsaka as |
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Kenji Sahara as |
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Tōru Abe as |
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Shinichi Yanagisawa as |
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Kokinji Katsura as |
| Production | Sadao Sugihara | Producer |
| Directing | Umetsugu Inoue | Director |
| Writing | Katsuya Susaki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Umetsugu Inoue | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yoshio Hasuike | Screenplay |
| Camera | Kōzō Okazaki | Director of Photography |
| Lighting | Kazuo Shimomura | Gaffer |
| Sound | Yōichi Nakagawa | Sound |
| Sound | Hajime Kaburagi | Music |