Hibotan bakuto: Nidaime shûmei

Name: Hibotan bakuto: Nidaime shûmei
Genre: Drama
Released: 1969-04-10
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Bin Amatsu, Kanjûrô Arashi, Masaharu Arikawa

1969
1h 35m

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7.2/10

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Drama

The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, whose livelihoods are threatened, and the railway construction wor... Read allThe industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, whose livelihoods are threatened, and the railway construction workers.The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, whose livelihoods are threatened, and the railway construction workers.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Despite appearing in previous entries in the series The Valiant Red Peony (1968) as Hanaoka and Red Peony Gambler 3: The Flower Cards Game (1969) as Katagiri, here Ken Takakura plays entirely new but similar wandering character Koji Yashiro, even first arriving on screen in a similar manner carrying a parasol in the rain as in the previous film. Hibotan Oryu meets this third man and appears unfazed as to his unacknowledged resemblance to her other identical friends.

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Followed by Red Peony Gambler: Here Comes Oryu (1969)

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6/10

A bit of stalling in the Red Peony Gambler series

For one major problem: where's the gambling part? In this movie Oryu acts for 100% of the time as a businesswoman of sorts (I know, Yakuza in Japan have several ties with legal businesses, but still it doesn't make any sense considering the series title), making the purpose of watching a movie in a series about the misadventures of a female gambler totally pointless. Also, the whole stuff about her having an unknown uncle magically giving her the leadership of her family clan makes the road travelling seen in the previous movies in the series once again completely pointless, what was the rationale for her to travel, having adventures and get experience in the Yakuza world if to become the leader of her clan all she had to do was to have a relative bestowing on her the title? Or to her to start traveling again at the end of the movie? For the rest, this thing is watchable once but it's clearly not en par with the previous movies in the series.