Tattooed Life (刺青一代) 58 years old

Tattooed Life

‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?

Credits

Tattooed Life Cast

Name Character
Kayo Matsuo She was 22, now 81 years old as Oyuki
Hiroko Itô She was 28, now 86 years old as Kinoshita Masayo
Akira Yamanouchi He was 44, 72 years old when he died as Kinoshita Yuzo
Michio Hino as Tokuhira
Akira Takahashi He was 42, 83 years old when he died as Anzo
Hiroshi Chō He was 42, 54 years old when he died as Masayoshi
Yuji Odaka as Ezaki Osamu
Wataru Kobayashi as Masakichi
Kotobuki Hananomoto He was 26, now 84 years old as Murakami Kenji
Kaku Takashina He was 46, 75 years old when he died as Tsuneyoshi
Hôsei Komatsu He was 41, 78 years old when he died as Yamano Senkichi
Akira Hisamatsu as Patrolman Oikawa
Hideki Takahashi He was 34, now 24 years old as Murakami Tetsutaro

Tattooed Life Crew

Name Department
Akira Suzuki as Editor. He was 35 (83) years old when He died Editing
Seijun Suzuki as Director. He was 42 (93) years old when He died Directing
Kei Hattori as Screenplay. She was 33 (now 91) years old Writing
Takeo Kimura as Production Design. He was 47 (91) years old when He died Art
Masayuki Takagi as Producer. He was 59 (72) years old when He died Production
Kuratarô Takamura as Director of Photography. He was 44 (84) years old when He died Camera
Masayoshi Ikeda as Original Music Composer. Sound
Tattooed Life poster
Tattooed Life (58 years)

  • Release day: Saturday, November 13, 1965
  • Runtime: 87 minutes