Red Quay

Red Quay
Red Quay
Directed by	Toshio Masuda
Screenplay by	Ichiro Ikeda; Toshio Masuda;
Produced by	Takiko Mizunoe
Starring	Yujiro Ishihara; Mie Kitahara; Yukiko Todoroki; Shiro Osaka;
Cinematography	Shinsaku Himeda
Edited by	Tsuji Masanori
Music by	Hajime Kaburagi
Release date	23 September 1958;
Country	Japan

Red Quay (赤い波止場, Akai hatoba) is a 1958 black-and-white action Japanese film directed by Toshio Masuda.^[2]

Red Quay was one of the many successful collaborations between director Toshio Masuda and actor Yujiro Ishihara which defined the Nikkatsu action film genre.^[3]

Plot

Tominaga Jiro, who slaughtered five yakuza in Tokyo and now he is staying at the Matsuyama group in Kobe. Tominaga accidentally witnesses the scene where a restaurant owner Sugita is killed due to the trouble of drug trading at Kobe Port.^[4]

Cast

Yujiro Ishihara : Tominaga Jiro
Mie Kitahara : Sugita Keiko
Masumi Okada : Tabō
Sanae Nakahara : Mammy
Shirō Ōsaka : Noro
Jun Miyazaki : Sugita
Hideaki Nitani : Katsumata

Release

Red Quay was released on 23 September 1958.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Red Pier". Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 1 (Booklet). Arrow Video. 2015. p. 15. FCD1200/AV037.
^ "赤い波止場". kotobank. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^ 日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第二章ヒーロー像の定着-興隆期の様相 p.32-50 7.日活版「望郷」のロマネスク-「赤い波止場」 ISBN 4624710878
^ "赤い波止場". Nikkatsu. Retrieved 5 March 2019.

External links

Red Quay at IMDb

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[credits-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Red Pier". Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Volume 1 (Booklet). Arrow Video. 2015. p. 15. FCD1200/AV037.

[2] "赤い波止場". kotobank. Retrieved 2 November 2019.

[3] 日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第二章ヒーロー像の定着-興隆期の様相 p.32-50 7.日活版「望郷」のロマネスク-「赤い波止場」 ISBN 4624710878

[4] "赤い波止場". Nikkatsu. Retrieved 5 March 2019.

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