Tag Archives: Eitarô Ozawa

A poor woman agrees to marry a much older man, not knowing that his wife is still alive. Read More »

A provincial warlord who has seized power after success in battle is our titular ‘scoundrel’. Read More »

Tamiko works as a live-in maid in a modest ryokan, while her bed-ridden husband, Kanji Read More »

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked Read More »

Ayako is charged with murdering her much older academic husband while climbing a mountain. Read More »

A working-class woman becomes bent on revenge after her little boy is killed in a hit and run; she discovers that the man who took the rap was simply a corporate lackey covering up for his boss’s wife. Read More »

An errant salaryman’s son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor Tane, who’s reluctant to let the kid board. Read More »

The film is packed with nice stunts throughout, but the screenplay could be better. After escaping the prison Chiba teams up with a bunch of thugs, who design prison escapes for money. Unfortunately trust and loyalty are unknown concepts to these men who take turns deceiving each other. The endless “who’s-cheating-who” game has been done better in other films, and sometimes the writing is downright sloppy: when a carefully planned escape operation fails, Chiba simply steals a fire engine and drives away without anyone noticing! It also feels that director Kosaku Yamashita, who made his name with yakuza films, was a bit out of his element here. However, even with these weaknesses it’s an entertaining action comedy which compares favourably against some of the later, similar Yasaku Matsuda films like Execution Game (1978) and No Grave for Us (1979). The focus is on stunts and comedy.
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Kamiki is a professional fixer of jailbreaks who allows prisoners to escape for big money.
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