
New Tale of Zatoichi(1963)
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.

Yūjirō Ishihara
Senkichi Nomura

Rentaro Mikuni
Keizo Sasaki

Ruriko Asaoka
Akiko

Hiroyuki Nagato
Goro

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Onizame

Shinichi Yanagisawa
"Mom"
Kinshiro Matsumoto
Ken
Jushiro Kobayashi
Sanzo

Tōru Abe
Matsu

Kō Nishimura
Hikobei
The Eagle and the Hawk is a action, drama, crime, adventure film released in 1957 exploring themes of japan, hong kong, sailor, post war japan, freighter, shipboard romance. Directed by Umetsugu Inoue, it stars Yūjirō Ishihara, Rentaro Mikuni, Ruriko Asaoka. In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
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