Pale Flower (1964) on Netflix
Muraki, a yakuza hitman, leaves prison to find his gang merged with the Funada gang, whose member he killed. In an illegal gambling parlor he meets Saeko, a young thrill-seeker.
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- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.7/105,339 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes92%
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Plot summary
Muraki, a yakuza hitman, has left prison after doing time for killing a member of the Funada gang, and finds that his own gang and the Funada gang have merged. In an illegal gambling parlor he stakes a large sum and loses it to Saeko, a young upper-class thrill-seeker. That night he reconnects with Shinko Furuta, a woman he once loved. At a horse race the next day he learns the gangs have made peace to face the Imai gang from Osaka.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pale Flower (1964)
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- Screenwriter Masaru Baba complained to Shochiku managers that Masahiro Shinoda had made an "anarchistic" film, a dispute over visuals and sound replacing dialogue that delayed Pale Flower's release by nine months.
- Masahiro Shinoda cast Ryō Ikebe as the lead of Pale Flower because he wanted an actor "who had fallen on hard times", rather than one already under contract such as Keiji Sada.
- Ryō Ikebe was at home, sidelined by flubbed lines on Toho's theater stage, when Shinoda offered him the part; Ikebe thought he was joking and called himself a "ham actor".
