The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart (1963)
Original title: 泥だらけの純情
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart is a 1963 Japanese-language romance movie directed by Kō Nakahira, with a running time of 1h 31m. It stars Sayuri Yoshinaga, Mitsuo Hamada and Masako Izumi.
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
Cast
- Sayuri Yoshinaga as Mami Yokoyama
- Mitsuo Hamada as Jiro
- Masako Izumi as Kazue
- Naomi Hoshi as Junko
- Asao Koike as Hanai
- Chikako Hosokawa as Kinko, Mami's mother
- Nobuo Kawakami as Inspector Urakami
- Zenpei Saga as Fukui's father
- Saburo Hiromatsu
- Masayoshi Miyasaka as Morihara
- Michio Hino as Detective Murayama
- Kōtarō Sugie as Detective