is a 1959 Japanese action and yakuza film directed by

Buichi Saitō was a Japanese film director from Saitama Prefecture. His representative works included '' Wataridori series'' starring Akira Kobayashi, ''Farewell to Southern Tosa''(1959) and ''Gazing at Love and Death''(1964). Saitō often worked with Akira ...

. It stars

Akira Kobayashi is a Japanese actor and singer. His nickname is . Biography Kobayashi attended Meiji University but left before graduating. He became an actor at Nikkatsu and made his film debut with "Ueru Tamashii" directed by Yuzo Kawashima in 1956. He s ...

. The Wandering Guitarist is the first film of Akira Kobayashi and Buichi Saitō's ''Wataridori series''. The film made Akira Kobayashi star and he gained national popularity.

Plot

*Source: Shinji Taki is a former detective but now he is a vagabond with a guitar. In the port town he visits, Taki saves a yakuza of the Akitsu clan at a bar fight and he is hired as a bouncer of the Akitsu clan. Akitsu orders Taki to evict the inhabitants for the development of the town.

Cast

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as Shinji Taki *

Ruriko Asaoka , born 2 July 1940 in Xinjing, Manchukuo (now Changchun, Jilin, China), is a Japanese actress. She won the Medal with Purple Ribbon (2002) and Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (2011). She married actor Koji Ishizaka in ...

as Yuki Akitsu *

Joe Shishido was a Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He appeared in some 300 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film '' Branded to Kill'' ...

as Joe *

Nobuo Kaneko was a Japanese actor. His wife was actress Yatsuko Tanami. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1950 and 1993. Career Kaneko was a versatile character actor, playing roles ranging from comedic buffoons to hardened yakuza bosses. He is es ...

as Reizaburō Akitsu (Head of the Akitsu clan) * Sanae Nakahara as Shōji Sumiko *

Misako Watanabe is a Japanese stage, film and television actress. A graduate of the Haiyuza Theatre Company, she gave her film debut in Tadashi Imai's ''Tower of Lilies'' (1953) before becoming a contract player at the Nikkatsu film studios. She appeared in alm ...

as Rie * Kyōji Aoyama as Yasukawa *

Tomio Aoki ''aka'' was a Japanese film actor. Aoki became famous as a child actor after debuting at the age of six in silent films directed by Yasujirō Ozu. His leading role in Ozu's 1929 short comedy ''Tokkan kozo'' gave Aoki his nickname. '' I Was Bor ...

as Tetsu

Wataridori series

* ''Kuchibue ga Nagareru Minatomachi'' (1960) * ''Naked Youth -A Story of Cruelty'' (1960) * ''Sword and Devotion'' (1960) * ''The Spook Cottage''(1960) * ''The Rambler under the Southern Cross''(1961) * ''Ōunabara wo Yuku Wataridori'' (1961) * ''Kitakikōyori Wataridori Kitae Kaeru'' (1962)

References

External links

The Wandering Guitarist at Nikkatsu
1959 films Nikkatsu films 1950s Japanese-language films Japanese crime films Films about guitars and guitarists 1950s Japanese films {{1950s-Japan-film-stub