Movie: The Symbol of a Man

Top 10 Billed Cast

Hideki Takahashi
高橋英樹

Ryuji Oshima

Masako Izumi
和泉雅子

Haruko

Kenjirō Ishiyama
石山健二郎

Shozaburo Oshima

Akira Nagoya
名古屋章

Saiga

Yukiko Todoroki
轟夕起子

Kiyo Murata

Asao Koike
小池朝雄

Tatsu

Hiroshi Kondō
近藤宏

Yuzo

Shirō Ōsaka
大坂志郎

Kanzo

Ichiro Kijima
木島一郎

Matsukawa

Yuzo Kiura
木浦佑三

Kudo

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    In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals, Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.

  • Release Date

    1963-07-14

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    7

  • Rating:

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    日本語
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