The Man from the East

Name: The Man from the East
Director: Umetsugu Inoue
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1961-03-18
Duration: 1 h 41 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Yūzō Kayama, Yuriko Hoshi, Makoto Satō, Jun Funato, Shirō Ōsaka

1961

1h 41m

Crime Drama

Director: Umetsugu Inoue

Writers: Katsuya Susaki, Umetsugu Inoue

Overview

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.