Abashiri Prison (film)

Abashiri Prison
Abashiri Prison
	Theatrical poster for Abashiri Prison (1965)
Directed by	Teruo Ishii
Written by	Teruo Ishii; Hajime Itō
Starring	Ken Takakura
Cinematography	Yoshikazu Yamasawa
Music by	Masao Yagi
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	April 18, 1965;
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Abashiri Prison (網走番外地, Abashiri Bangaichi) aka A Man from Abashiri Prison is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Teruo Ishii and starring Ken Takakura. It is the first entry in the Abashiri Bangaichi / Abashiri Prison series. Highly successful, it was the first hit in the yakuza film genre.^[2] It made a star of Takakura and Ishii directed ten more films in the series.^[3]

Synopsis

In Hokkaido's Abashiri Prison, Shinichi Tachibana, model prisoner with six months remaining in his sentence is handcuffed to Gonda, a hardened criminal. When Gonda and other inmates escape from the prison, Tachibana must go along.^[3]

Cast

Ken Takakura
Kōji Nanbara
Tetsurō Tamba
Toru Abe
Kanjūrō Arashi
Kyosuke Machida
Kunie Tanaka
Limm Sueii
Kenji Ushio
Koji Takishima
Koji Miemachi
Kazu Sugiyoshi
Seiya Satou
Joji Yoshimura
Koji Sekiyama
Tadashi Suganuma
Tatsuya Kitayama

References

^ Infobox data from 網走番外地 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-07.; "網走番外地". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2009-08-05. and Abashiri Bangaichi (1965) at IMDb
^ Silver, Alain; James Ursini (2007). The gangster film reader. Limelight Editions. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-87910-332-3.
^ ^a ^b Schilling, Mark (2003). The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films. Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press. p. 156. ISBN 1-880656-76-0.

External links

English

Abashiri Bangaichi at AllMovie
"ABASHIRI BANGAICHI". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
Abashiri Bangaichi at IMDb

Japanese

網走番外地(1965) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
"網走番外地". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
網走番外地 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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[1] Infobox data from 網走番外地 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-07.; "網走番外地". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2009-08-05. and Abashiri Bangaichi (1965) at IMDb

[2] Silver, Alain; James Ursini (2007). The gangster film reader. Limelight Editions. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-87910-332-3.

[Schilling_156-3] Schilling, Mark (2003). The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films. Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press. p. 156. ISBN 1-880656-76-0.

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