Duel In The Red Valley
Akai Tanima No Ketto 赤い谷間の決斗
Director: Toshio Masuda 舛田利雄
Released: December 28, 1965
Distributor: Nikkatsu
Screenplay: Masashige Narusawa 成沢昌茂
Starring:
Meiko Kaji 梶芽衣子 (Masako Ota 太田雅子) as Kimiko
Yujiro Ishihara 石原裕次郎 as Shingo Kazama
Tetsuya Watari 渡哲也 as Ken Watanabe
Kaneko Iwasaki 岩崎加根子 as
Madame Ginsu
Kinji Katsurasho 桂小金治 as Date Hanroku
Eitaro Ozawa 小沢栄太郎 as Daigoro Samejima
Goro Tarumi 垂水悟郎
Info:
Also known as The Duel At Red Valley.
Plot:
A college student by the name of Watanabe Ken visits the town of Shibetoro in Hokkaidō. His mother gave birth to him in a quarry in Shibetoro and he wants to see the stone on which he was born. When local rowdies pick a quarrel with him, Ken is saved by Kazama Shingo, the foreman of the quarry. Ken visits the quarry where the stonecutters are confronting an unscrupulous businessman named Samejima Daigorō, who is trying to take over the quarry. Despite some initial feelings of hostility toward Shingo, Ken begins to trust this man who him who is standing up to Samejima and trying to protect the quarry.
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