Presented By: Center for Japanese Studies
Blood of Revenge (Japanese Film Screening)
CJS Summer Film Series
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Directed by Tai Kato, 1965, 91 min.
The year is 1907, Osaka is ready to invest in its future as an international trade port. Asajiro (KÅji Tsurata) and his yakuza clan attempt to make the leap to legitimacy as a civil construction business, but past connections and old enemies lead him back to violence off the straightened path. A pairing of Kato’s forte in directing yakuza films with the iconic performance of Tsuruta (the genre’s first star) as the chivalric underworld hero makes this film a cut well above the standard.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation.
The year is 1907, Osaka is ready to invest in its future as an international trade port. Asajiro (KÅji Tsurata) and his yakuza clan attempt to make the leap to legitimacy as a civil construction business, but past connections and old enemies lead him back to violence off the straightened path. A pairing of Kato’s forte in directing yakuza films with the iconic performance of Tsuruta (the genre’s first star) as the chivalric underworld hero makes this film a cut well above the standard.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation.
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