Tattooed Life

Tattooed Life (刺青一代, Irezumi ichidai) is a 1965 yakuza action movie directed by Seijun Suzuki. The film stars Hideki Takahashi as "Silver Fox" Tetsu. The story follows the flight of yakuza hitman Tetsu and his younger, artistic brother Kenji after the latter kills a yakuza boss in a double cross. The pair is pursued by the yakuza and police as they head for Manchuria. They are swindled of their money before they can reach their destination and take labor jobs on a tunnel project, each falling in love with their new boss's sister-in-law and wife, respectively.

Tattooed Life
Directed bySeijun Suzuki
Produced byMasayuki Takagi
Written byKei Hattori
Kinya Naoi
StarringHideki Takahashi
Masako Izumi
Yuji Odaka
Music byMasayoshi Ikeda
CinematographyKurataro Takamura
Distributed byNikkatsu
Release date
November 13, 1965
Running time
87 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese


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