The Wandering Guitarist
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| The Wandering Guitarist[1] | |
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| Directed by | Buichi Saitō |
| Written by | Ei Ogawa |
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| Cinematography | Kuratarō Takamura |
| Edited by | Mitsuo Kondō |
| Music by | Taichiro Kosugi |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Wandering Guitarist (Japanese: ギターを持った渡り鳥, Hepburn: Guitar wo Motta Wataridori), also known as The Rambling Guitarist, is a 1959 Japanese action and yakuza film directed by Buichi Saitō.[2][3] It stars Akira Kobayashi.[4] The Wandering Guitarist is the first film of Akira Kobayashi and Buichi Saitō's Wataridori series.[5][6][7] The film made Akira Kobayashi a star and he gained national popularity.[8]
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Shinji Taki is a former detective but now he is a vagabond with a guitar. In the port town he visits, Taki saves a yakuza of the Akitsu clan at a bar fight and he is hired as a bouncer of the Akitsu clan. Akitsu orders Taki to evict the inhabitants for the development of the town.
Cast
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- Akira Kobayashi as Shinji Taki
- Ruriko Asaoka as Yuki Akitsu
- Joe Shishido as Joe
- Nobuo Kaneko as Reizaburō Akitsu (Head of the Akitsu clan)
- Sanae Nakahara as Shōji Sumiko
- Misako Watanabe as Rie
- Kyōji Aoyama as Yasukawa
- Tomio Aoki as Tetsu
