Tattooed Life

Tattooed Life

87 mins | Drama, Crime, Action, Thriller | Nov. 13, 1965

‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?

Tattooed Life

87 mins | Drama, Crime, Action, Thriller | Nov. 13, 1965

Tattooed Life
‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title 刺青一代
Directors Masami Kuzû, Seijun Suzuki
Writers Kinya Naoi, Kei Hattori

Cast

Hideki Takahashi

as Murakami Tetsutaro

Masako Izumi

as Kinoshita Midori

Akira Yamanouchi

as Kinoshita Yuzo

Yuji Odaka

as Ezaki Osamu

Kotobuki Hananomoto

as Murakami Kenji

Hiroko Itō

as Kinoshita Masayo

Kayo Matsuo

as Oyuki

Hōsei Komatsu

as Yamano Senkichi

Kaku Takashina

as Tsuneyoshi

Michio Hino

as Tokuhira

Keisuke Noro

as Seikou

Hiroshi Kôno

as Kurosawa

Shirô Yanase

as Asakichi

Hiroshi Chō

as Masayoshi

Akira Hisamatsu

as Patrolman Oikawa

Hiroshi Chiyoda

as Zensuke

Wataru Kobayashi

as Masakichi

Masaaki Honme

as Tsurumatsu

Akira Takahashi

as Anzo

Shiro Tonami

as Tomeji

Hiroshi Takao

as Sutekichi

Midori Mori

as Waitress

Yôko Naka

as Waitress

Seizaburō Kawazu

as Jugoro Akamatsu