Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game (1969)
Original title: 緋牡丹博徒 花札勝負
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game is a 1969 Japanese-language action movie directed by Tai Katō, with a running time of 1h 38m. It stars Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura and Kanjūrō Arashi.
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red peony tattoo and lives in world of chivalry and honor of the yakuza. This story takes place in the middle of the Meiji era in Nagoya. Oryu is wandering the country, training herself to reinstate her family name. With a written recommendation from Kumatora, she appears at the door of the Nishinomaru family. At the same time, the family is preparing for the gambling competition at the Netsuda Shrine Festival, which they have been hosting for generations. Meanwhile, the crooked Kinbara family is plotting to take over the competition. And now Oryu is forced to get involved in the struggle…
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Cast
- Sumiko Fuji as Red Peony Oryu
- Ken Takakura as Shogo Hanaoka
- Kanjūrō Arashi as Teijiro Sugiyama
- Asao Koike as Tetsunosuke Kanehara
- Bin Amatsu as Takimura
- Rinichi Yamamoto as Kenzo Kitamura
- Tomisaburō Wakayama as Torakichi Kumasaka
- Kyōsuke Machida as Fujimatsu
- Teruo Ishiyama as Jiro Sugiyama
- Daisuke Awaji
- Kanbi Fujiyama
- Masaharu Arikawa
