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In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited and laced with a fever-dreamlike score by Toru Takemitsu, this breakthrough gangster romance from Masahiro Shinoda announced an idiosyncratic major filmmaking talent. The pitch-black Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) is an unforgettable excursion into the underworld. (Criterion)
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![Ryō Ikebe](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/424/424226_84a3fa.jpg)
Ryō Ikebe
Japan
Best movies:
Early Spring (1956)
Pale Flower (1964)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
![Mariko Kaga](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/424/424225_511ccf.jpg)
Mariko Kaga
Japan
Best movies:
Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Love Letter (1995)
Pale Flower (1964)
![Eijirō Tōno](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/615/158615754_9991c8.jpg)
Eijirō Tōno
Japan
Best movies:
Revenge (1963)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
![Seiji Miyaguchi](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/279/279848_3a706d.jpg)
Seiji Miyaguchi
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Early Summer (1951)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Reizaburô Yamamoto
Japan
Best movies:
Tange Sazen and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Pale Flower (1964)
Takashi Fujiki
Japan
Best movies:
Pale Flower (1964)
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)
A Flame at the Pier (1962)
原知佐子
Japan
Best movies:
Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad (2007)
Pale Flower (1964)
Hačikó monogatari (1987)
山茶花究
Japan
Best movies:
High and Low (1963)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Yojimbo (1961)