Crime ·Drama · Japan · 1961 · 1h 41m

The Man from the East

東から来た男

Director

Cast

Yūzō Kayama as Kenta Hasebe Yuriko Hoshi as Michiko Homma Makoto Satō as Uesugi Jun Funato as Egawa Shirō Ōsaka as Kenji Sahara as

Crew

Kōzō Okazaki — Director of Photography Katsuya Susaki — Screenplay Umetsugu Inoue — Screenplay Yoshio Hasuike — Screenplay Sadao Sugihara — Producer

Synopsis

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.

Key Collaborators

Umetsugu Inoue Director Kōzō Okazaki Director of Photography Katsuya Susaki Screenplay Umetsugu Inoue Screenplay Yoshio Hasuike Screenplay Sadao Sugihara Producer

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