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Abashiri Prison (網走番外地, Abashiri Bangaichi) aka A Man from Abashiri Prison is a 1965 Japanese film directed by Teruo Ishii and starring Ken Takakura. It is the first entry in the Abashiri Bangaichi / Abashiri Prison series. Highly successful, it was the first hit in the yakuza film genre.[2] It made a star of Takakura and Ishii directed ten more films in the series.[3]

Abashiri Prison
Theatrical poster for Abashiri Prison (1965)
Directed by	Teruo Ishii[1]
Written by	Teruo Ishii Hajime Itō
Starring	Ken Takakura
Cinematography	Yoshikazu Yamasawa
Music by	Masao Yagi
Distributed by	Toei Company
Release date	April 18, 1965 (1965-04-18)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Synopsis

In Hokkaido's Abashiri Prison, Shinichi Tachibana, model prisoner with six months remaining in his sentence is handcuffed to Gonda, a hardened criminal. When Gonda and other inmates escape from the prison, Tachibana must go along.[3][4]

Cast

• Ken Takakura
• Kōji Nanbara
• Tetsurō Tamba
• Toru Abe
• Kanjūrō Arashi
• Kyosuke Machida
• Kunie Tanaka
• Limm Sueii
• Kenji Ushio
• Koji Takishima
• Koji Miemachi
• Kazu Sugiyoshi
• Seiya Satou
• Joji Yoshimura
• Koji Sekiyama
• Tadashi Suganuma
• Tatsuya Kitayama

References

External links

English

• Abashiri Bangaichi at AllMovie
• "ABASHIRI BANGAICHI". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
• Abashiri Bangaichi at IMDb

Japanese

• 網走番外地(1965) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
• "網走番外地". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2011-10-08. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
• 網走番外地 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2009-08-07.

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