Movie: "Pale Flower"

Release Date: Oct 2005 Genres: Crime / Thriller Runtime: 96 min Cast: Ryo Ikebe (Muraki), Mariko Kaga (Saeko) Takashi Fujiki (Yoh) Chisako Hara (Yakuza's lover) Eijirô Tôno (Gang leader) Seiji Miyaguchi (Gang leader) Mikizo Hirata (Mizuguchi) Keiko Kuni (Waitress) Sôhei Kurata (Hayakawa) Shinichirô Mikami (Reiji) Hiroshi Mizushima () Shin'ya Mizushima (Sabu) Koji Nakahara (Tamaki) Tomoko Saitô (Geisha) Isao Sasaki (Jiro) Kyû Sazanka (Imai) Naoki Sugiura (Aikawa) Muga Takewaki (Singer) Isao Tamagawa () Akio Tanaka (Patron)

Storyline

Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman who is out seeking thrills, and whose presence adds spice to the staid masculine underworld rituals. Muraki becomes her mentor while simultaneously coping with the shifts of power that have affected the gangs while he was interred. When he notices a rogue, drug-addicted young punk hanging around the gambling dens, he realizes that Saeko's insatiable lust for intense pleasures may be leading her to self-destruction.