---
title: 'Kanto Wanderer (1963)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Seijun Suzuki'
released: '1963-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 92
countries:
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/kanto-wanderer-1963'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057219/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Kanto Wanderer (1963)

1963 · 92 min · Japan

Original title: 関東無宿

## Synopsis

Kanto Wanderer  is a 1963 Japanese yakuza film directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Daizaburo Hirata and Hiroko Itō. It was a programme picture produced by the Nikkatsu Company to fill out the second half of a double bill with Shohei Imamura's The Insect Woman. The film was based on a novel by Taiko Hirabayashi and had been previously adapted to the screen as Song from the Underworld (1956) by Suzuki's mentor, Hiroshi Noguchi. The story involves Katsuta, a yakuza member who falls in love and is torn between giri (duty) and ninjo (humanity). The Kanto of the title refers to a large plain on which Tokyo is located.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Seijun Suzuki](https://cinepixo.com/people/seijun-suzuki)
- **Screenplay:** [Yasutarō Yagi](https://cinepixo.com/people/yasutaro-yagi)

## Cast

- [Akira Kobayashi](https://cinepixo.com/people/akira-kobayashi)
- [Toru Abe](https://cinepixo.com/people/toru-abe)
- [Taiji Tonoyama](https://cinepixo.com/people/taiji-tonoyama)
- [Yūnosuke Itō](https://cinepixo.com/people/yunosuke-ito)
- [Chieko Matsubara](https://cinepixo.com/people/chieko-matsubara)

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