A blind girl, two crooked yakuza, and Bunta Sugawara with zero patience for nonsense.
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he defends a blind girl at a street market. The area is targeted by rotten yakuza (Asao Koike and Tatsuo Endo), who have lured local senior female boss (Nijiko Kiyokawa’s) rebellious but not entirely indecent son Goro Ibuki to their side.
Acting
Sugawara's world-weary charm carrying entire scenes.
Direction
Suzuki's slick transitions between sentiment and street brawls.
Production
Osaka location shooting dripping with 1970 atmosphere.
Director
Norifumi Suzuki
Bunta Sugawara
Masaru Kokubun
Gorō Ibuki
Tetsuya
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Asahina Roku
Sanae Tsuchida
Natsuko
Ryōji Hayama
Ryohei Miyamura
Asao Koike
Kurogane Fujikichi:
Tatsuo Endō
Eiichiro Tojo
Shingo Yamashiro
Burakin
Tōru Yuri
Detective Inukai
Yumiko Katayama
Kurogane's Woman
Shōtarō Hayashi
Ginzō Iwabuchi
Akira Shioji
Yoshisuke Ōmura
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Suzuki's third Kanto film in two years, part of Toei's relentless franchise machine.
Nijiko Kiyokawa's matriarch role reflected real postwar female yakuza bosses who ran Osaka's black markets.
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