is a 1985 Japanese comedy directed by

Seijun Suzuki , born (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predo ...

and starring

Kenichi Hagiwara was a Japanese singer and actor. Music career Also known as Sho-Ken, he was the lead singer of The Tempters, which was a blues-rock band connected to the Group Sounds scene, and gained big hits in the late 1960s. Hagiwara was known for his go ...

. The film is based on the novel of the same name by

Toshiyuki Kajiyama was a Japanese novelist, essayist and journalist active during the Shōwa period of Japan. He was known for his popular novels, which included mystery, historical and erotic novels. Early life Kajiyama was born in Keijo (present day Seoul) in ...

Plot

Umiemon (

) is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Cast

as Umiemon *

Yūko Tanaka is a Japanese actress from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. She has won several acting awards during a long career working in both film and television, after she graduated from Meiji University. Life and career Early career At the beginning of her ...

as Kozome Takonoya *

Kenji Sawada is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist and actor, best known for being the vocalist for the Japanese rock band The Tigers. Nicknamed because of his self-professed adoration of Julie Andrews, he was born in Tsunoi, Iwami (now part of Totto ...

as Tetsugoro Osawa *

Akira Emoto is a Japanese actor. Career In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''Dr. Akagi''. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for ''Dotonbori River'' and '' Hearts and Flo ...

as Ushiemon * Chuck Wilson as

Al Capone Alphonse Gabriel Capone (; January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the ...

* Hachiro Tako as Boss of beggars *

Kirin Kiki (15 January 1943 – 15 September 2018) was a Japanese actress for Japanese cinema and television. Biography Kiki was born on January 15, 1943, in Kanda, Tokyo. Her father was a master of the ''biwa'' lute and a former police officer. Her mother ...

as Sene Tachikawa *

Haruko Kato was a Japanese actress. Biography Haruko Kato was born in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo, on 24 November 1922. After training at acting school, she was signed up with the film production company Toho in 1939, debuting in ' in the same year. She marri ...

as Wife *Shunsuke Kariya as Kondo *

Miki Takakura (born on December 14, 1960 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa) is a Japanese gravure idol and pink film actress who was active in the 1980s and rose to prominence as Nikkatsu's from 1983 to 1985. Life and career Nikkatsu When famed Nikkatsu S&M actress Na ...

as Wife of an entertainer *

Tatsuo Umemiya was a Japanese actor, ''tarento'', and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and ''tarento'' Anna Umemiya. The son of a doctor, Umemiya gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Stu ...

as Hori

References

External links

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Capone Cries a Lot
' at the

Japanese Movie Database The , more commonly known as simply JMDb, is an online database of information about Japanese movies, actors, and production crew personnel. It is similar to the Internet Movie Database but lists only those films initially released in Japan. Y. ...

1985 films 1980s Japanese-language films Films based on Japanese novels Films directed by Seijun Suzuki 1985 comedy films Shochiku films 1980s Japanese films {{1980s-comedy-film-stub