Masashige Narusawa – Hana fudâ tôsei AKA Flower Cards Chivalry (1967)
Review from Takuma_964 @ Letterboxd wrote:
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss’s crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film’s remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn’t have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It’s bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I’ve seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
Making.One's.Way.1967.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H264.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
Size: 3.05 GiB
Video
Codec: h264
Resolution: 1440x1080 ~> 1920x1080
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Frame rate: 59.940 fps
Bit rate: 4 573 kb/s
BPP: 0.049
Audio
#1: Japanese 2.0ch AAC LC @ 141 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/B14C20C23E4D4B3/Making.One’s.Way.1967.1080i.HDTV.AAC.H264.mkv
Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:Japanese
…here’s some simplistic eng subs for this one
(do expect mistakes here & there, but they certainly get the job done decently overall) – have fun:
https://pastebin.com/nnNg0VD5
Pretty great film by the way, it absolutely worths rediscovery…
This is terrific work, xrt, for which you have my sincere gratitude. Look forward to watching in the next few days.
…i’ll try coming up with some simple eng subs by next week or so,
if successful, i’ll obviously share them here for others as well…
thanks a lot!! really
Many thanks, xrt. Keen to see what you come up with.
🙁 no eng subs
Given its reputation, would very much love to see English or French subs for this sometime . . .