71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Junko intai kinen eiga: Kantô hizakura ikka / Cherry Blossom Fire Gang / Cherry Blossom Fire Gang

Masahiro Makino
Japan
Synopsis
The action takes place towards the end of the Meiji period in Tokyo?s popular Yanagibashi area. The famous geisha Tsuruji, as skilled in the art of serving tea as she is at fighting, takes the place of her murdered father Kashimasa as a leader of the firefighters in the absence of Shinzo, her former partner and son to the head of the Ni family, whose father, Kichigoro, has disowned him for being a yakuza.
Director
Masahiro Makino
Screenplay
Kazuo Kasahara
Photography
Motoya Washyo
Music
Chuji Kinoshita
Cast
Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Bunta Sugawara
Running Time
102 m.
Country
Japan
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