Pale Flower
Pale Flower

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Just released from prison after serving three years for murdering a member of a rival gang, Maraki, a middle-aged yakuza, returns to his old haunts in Tokyo largely out of loyalties despite not much liking that life or himself in the process. Those old routines include assuming his place within the Funada gang, reconnecting with Shinko, his twenty-three year old girlfriend, who wants a commitment from him (something he probably isn't willing to give), she threatening to accep... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Pale Flower:

Ryō Ikebe
Mariko Kaga
Takashi Fujiki
Naoki Sugiura
Shinichirō Mikami
Isao Sasaki

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Just released from prison after serving three years for murdering a member of a rival gang, Maraki, a middle-aged yakuza, returns to his old haunts in Tokyo largely out of loyalties despite not much liking that life or himself in the process. Those old routines include assuming his place within the Funada gang, reconnecting with Shinko, his twenty-three year old girlfriend, who wants a commitment from him (something he probably isn't willing to give), she threatening to accept another marriage proposal otherwise despite her love for him, and gambling at his usual illegal card den despite he not often winning. Although at first glance he thinks nothing has changed in three years, there are some major changes, especially that the Funada gang has merged with that rival gang partly to maintain the peace. One other change is that an innocent looking, young, upscale woman, Saeko, she the only female, has started gambling at that same card den, that innocent look beyond the fact that she likes to play big. He becomes her mentor and protector of sorts in he introducing her to an illegal card den with higher stakes, which is what she is seeking. In spending more and more time with her and in a chance encounter, Maraki not only begins to understand Saeko in she not being the total innocent her may have first assumed, especially in her curiosity with Yoh, the seeming drug addict cowering in the corner of the card den, but evaluates his ritualized life in the process.

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Apollo Guide - 9/10 by Kurt DahlkeA masterful, meticulously crafted, wry meditation on fate and love that any cinema fan will appreciate.
Scene-Stealers.com - 9/10 by Eric MelinDirector Masahiro Shinoda takes lots of chances, using close-ups and off-kilter edits to deepen his characters. A jazzy, avant-garde score throws things even more off balance.
Paste Magazine - 9/10 by Sean GandertPale Flower sits comfortably as one of the darker noir films ever made
Eye for Film - 7/10 by Anton Bitela lost yakuza classic, part Bob Le Flambeur, part Rebel Without a Cause, but with an ecstatic blankness all its own.
User Review - 10/10 by Doctor Dan BI just saw this 1964 Japanese gem on Netflix Instant....and let me just say it has aged well. A stylish black and white gangster flick, or rather Yakuza, follows tough guy Muraki in his first taste of freedom from the Big House to his eventual return. He meets up with a sulty gambling gamine name Saeko and his fate is set. Smart, cool and stylish this film is a fun ride. Masahiro Shinoda directs. (I actually rated it 5 stars, but for some reason Flixster won't print it...)
User Review - 10/10 by Lori BHow is it that I have never seen this Film Noir, Japanese New Wave masterpiece? Wow, just wow. This movie is all dark style, beautiful and deadly and great. See it! Available on Hulu Plus.
User Review - 10/10 by Kenneth LThis is an amazing movie and I simply cannot recommend it enough for lovers of film noir and Japanese cinema.
User Review - 10/10 by Nik MShinoda's gangster flick Pale Flower is riveting with intensity, an established setting, and themes of evil and death tightly wound into a perfect artistic delivery. The iconic dream sequence clearly depicts the film's artistic value at its highest.
User Review - 10/10 by Jack GOne of a handful of films I could picture Donald Westlake feeling jealous he didn't write.
User Review - 10/10 by Patrick BI am really struggling to come up with something that this film lacks. Incredible from start to finish.

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