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The Blossom and the Sword (1973)
Genres: Action, Drama
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
- Hiroko Maki as Mine Kondô
- Tetsuya Watari as Seijirô Tanaka
- Junko Toda as Tsuru Ogawa
- Tōru Abe as Tsuyoshi Kishimoto
- Kinya Kitaoji as Captain Sakagami
- Gō Katō as Toyohiko Kagawa
- Kunio Murai as Minoru Ôhama
- Meichō Soganoya as Kinzô Nagata