Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as planned?
Acting
Bunta Sugawara's thousand-yard stare says everything.
Direction
Nakajima frames violence as exhausted inevitability.
Director
Sadao Nakajima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bunta Sugawara made eight Monjiro films between 1972-1974, often shooting back-to-back with different directors.
The 'mushuku' wandering gambler archetype peaked in 1970s cinema as Japan processed postwar displacement and the collapse of traditional loyalty structures.
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