Kanto Wanderer

Kanto Wanderer
Directed by	Seijun Suzuki
Written by	Yasutarō Yagi Taiko Hirabayashi (Novel)
Produced by	Kenzō Asada
Starring	Akira Kobayashi Chieko Matsubara Daizaburo Hirata Hiroko Itō
Cinematography	Shigeyoshi Mine
Edited by	Akira Suzuki
Music by	Masayoshi Ikeda
Distributed by	Nikkatsu
Release date	November 16, 1963[1]
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Kanto Wanderer (関東無宿, Kantō mushuku, aka The Woman Sharper and Kanto Vagabonds) is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Daizaburo Hirata and Hiroko Itō.^[2] It was a programme picture produced by the Nikkatsu Company to fill out the second half of a double bill with Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman. The film was based on a novel by Taiko Hirabayashi and had been previously adapted to the screen as Song from the Underworld (1956) by Suzuki's mentor, Hiroshi Noguchi. The story involves Katsuta, a yakuza member who falls in love and is torn between giri (duty) and ninjo (humanity). The Kanto of the title refers to a large plain on which Tokyo is located.