Blood of Revenge

Sep 18, 1965

1h 31m

★ 6.7

Overview

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.

Genres

Action

Production Companies

Toei Company

Blood of Revenge Trailers

Cast

Asajiro Kikuchi

Koji Tsuruta

Hatsue

Sumiko Fuji

Minoru Ōki

Haruo Emoto

Masahiko Tsugawa

Tatsuzo Karasawa

Tōru Abe

Shingo Yamashiro

Harumi Sone

Rinichi Yamamoto

Tatsuo Endō

Yoshiko Nakamura

Ryuko Mizukami

Kikue Mōri

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