Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Age rating
- 18
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
- yakuza
- hiroshima
- japan
- betrayal
- criminal underworld
- ex soldier
- post war japan
- shōwa era (1926-89)
- former soldier
- jitsuroku
- post-war chaos period
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Bunta Sugawara
Shozo Hirono
Hiroki Matsukata
Tetsuya Sakai
Kunie Tanaka
Masakichi Makihara
Eiko Nakamura
Suzue Kunihiro
- Tsunehiko Watase — Toshio Arita
- Gorō Ibuki — Ueda
- Nobuo Kaneko — Yoshio Yamamori
- Toshie Kimura — Mrs. Yamamori
- Tamio Kawachi — Kanbara Seiichi
- Mayumi Nagisa — Akiko Shinjo
- Asao Uchida — Okubo Kenichi
- Shinichirō Mikami — Shinkai Uichi
- Hiroshi Nawa — Doi
- Shinji Takano — Kaneko Shoichi
- Harumi Sone — Shuji Yano
- Directed
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Written
- Kazuo Kasahara, Koichi Iiboshi
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 125 ratings
- Studio
- Toei Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
