Bird of Passage
1959 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan
Shinji (Akira Kobayashi), a wandering street musician, gets involved with a mob boss, Akitsu (Nobuo Kaneko), after saving one of his henchmen in a bar fight. Akitsu gives Shinji a job to evict an offshore fishery, but things take an unexpected twist when Shinji finds out the owner's wife is Akitsu's actual sister. As Shinji protects the Akitsu family, Akitsu's daughter takes a romantic interest in him. Shinji's mob life becomes more complicated when a member of the Taguchi family questions if Shinji is an undercover cop.
Direction Buichi Saito
Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Sanae Nakahara · Misako Watanabe · Nobuo Kaneko · Kyôji Aoyama · Jô Shishido · Mari Shiraki · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Yûzô Kiura · San'emon Suzuki · Hyôsuke Kanbe · Tsuneo Katagiri · Tomio Aoki · Saburo Hiromatsu
Soundtrack Taichirô Kosugi
Screenplay Kenzaburo Hara · Ei Ogawa · Hara Yamazaki
Cinematography Kurataro Takamura
Original title Gitaa o motta wataridori
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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