The Man from the East

Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to develop. Kenta befriends a wandering poet and the younger sister (Hoshi) of a boxer Keota killed in the ring.

Director: Umetsugu Inoue

Cast: Yūzō Kayama, Yuriko Hoshi, Makoto Satō, Jun Funato, Shirō Ōsaka, Kenji Sahara, Tōru Abe, Shinichi Yanagisawa

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.