Three Yakuza

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.

7.8

120 min

Cast

Kinnosuke Nakamura

Tatsuya Nakadai

Takashi Shimura

Hiroki Matsukata

Hiroko Sakuramachi

Wakaba Irie

Sumiko Fuji

Kunie Tanaka

Tatsuo Endō

Akira Shioji

Tokinosuke Nakamura

Sen Yano

Kenji Egi

Shinjirō Ehara

Takeshi Katō

Yutaka Sera

Asao Uchida

Shinnosuke Ogata

Yasushi Ōshiro

Shinzō Hotta

Masuo Kamiki

Kayoko Tominaga

Ryūko Azuma

Sakae Nishizaki

Hiroshi Mizuno

Chieko Naniwa

Mineko Maruhira

Kinji Nakamura

Kinnosuke Takamatsu

Kunijirō Yanagi

Gorō Naniwa

Shunsuke Haruga

Shunji Daito

Tokumaro Dan

Hanzō Kataoka

Heitaro Gori

Masaharu Arikawa

Kuniomi Kitani

Director

Tadashi Sawashima