The Blossom and the Sword (1973)

Summary

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

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Hiroko Maki

as Mine Kondô
Tetsuya Watari

as Seijirô Tanaka
Junko Toda

as Tsuru Ogawa
Tōru Abe

as Tsuyoshi Kishimoto
Kinya Kitaoji

as Captain Sakagami
Gō Katō

as Toyohiko Kagawa
Kunio Murai

as Minoru Ôhama
Meichô Soganoya

as Kinzô Nagata
Kin Sugai

as Okin
Akira Shioji

as
Kamatari Fujiwara

as
Michiko Ōtsuka

as
Bontarō Miake

as
Nakajirō Tomita

as
Kunji Harada

as
Keiji Sakakida

as
Shigeo Katô

as
Yasuzō Ogawa

as
Shōji Ōki

as
Motoo Noguchi

as
Shosei Muto

as
Masahiko Tanimura

as
Kayako Sono

as
Saburo Date

as
Seiji Endō

as
Mammoth Suzuki

as
Sanji Kojima

as
Kanta Mori

as
Kazuo Suzuki

as
Koji Miemachi

as

Writing	Tai Katō	Screenplay
Directing	Tai Katō	Director
Sound	Hajime Kaburagi	Original Music Composer
Camera	Hiroshi Murai	Director of Photography
Art	Iwao Akune	Art Direction
Production	Kazuo Baba	Producer
Production	Hideyuki Shiino	Producer
Production	Masayuki Satō	Producer
Sound	Fumio Yanoguchi	Sound Recordist
Lighting	Shinji Kojima	Lighting Technician
Editing	Yoshitami Kuroiwa	Editor
Directing	Yoshisuke Kawasaki	Assistant Director