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Bird of Passage

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Original title

Gitaa o motta wataridori

Year

1959

Running time

77 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Buichi Saito

Screenwriter

Kenzaburo Hara, Ei Ogawa, Hara Yamazaki

Cast

Music

Taichirô Kosugi

Cinematography

Kurataro Takamura

Producer

Nikkatsu

Genre

Action | Crime

Synopsis

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.

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Bird of Passage

1959

Buichi Saito