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RUNTIME
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80 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
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Fuji Takeshi monogatari: Yamato-damashii
1968 1h 20m JA
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MASTERPIECE
★10.0TMDB · 1
Drama
Synopsis
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At a bar in Honmoku, Yokohama, several yakuza members, desperate for some spare change, surrounded a pair of bartenders. Just as one of the yakuza was about to attack the blind bartender, a man who had been sitting at the bar turned around and slammed a left straight into the man's face. The man's name was Paul. He would later become Takeshi Fuji.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Takeshi Fuji
Yōko Yamamoto
Kazuko Tachibana
Keiko Kanazawa
Joji Takagi
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Hideo Sekigawa
- Writers
- Koji Asama
Want more? Switch to Cinephile mode in the header for DP, composer, budget, box office, production companies, keywords, and release history.
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Hideo Sekigawa directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 180 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
- 258 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Takeshi Fuji and Yōko Yamamoto and Kazuko Tachibana carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt0293167 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 80 min · 1h 20m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- JA
Also by
Hideo Sekigawa
Production companies
Who made it
Nikkatsu Corporation
JP
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1968-02-13
